Donald Trump was forced Tuesday to sit through a sermon by a bishop begging him to have "mercy" on gays and poor immigrants as the Republican celebrated the start to his second term as US president.

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, this week said the next pope should be a disciple of Christ first and foremost, one who places “the declaration of Jesus” at the center of his ...

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea máxima culpa. In my column last Friday, while focusing on the repeated emphasis Pope Leo XIV has placed on listening, I wrote the following: Also worth noting is the absence ...

On May 17, 2025, Bishop Robert Barron gave a public speech in Washington declaring, without any evidence, “Secularism is a poison to the soul.” On the same day in Rome, Pope Leo in his inaugural ...

Bishop Robert Barron in Rome this week urged young people to follow God and abjure worldly goods, calling on youth to “find their mission” and pursue the Lord “into the depths.” “God has an idea of ...

ROCHESTER — Winona-Rochester Bishop Robert Barron may lead a small diocese relative to the one that he came from, but his postings on social media on everything from state funerals to his musing on ...