Bishop Barron,

I grew up a very sincere and excited evangelical. I lost my faith for about 5 years in my 20s for intellectual reasons that you address here. You were actually one of the instruments God used to bring me back to faith. And you're right. One of the biggest points of clarification for me was what is meant by God, not the greatest being among many but BEING as such, the ground of all being. Before accepting this idea, I became convinced of the transcendence of the human spirit by my own experience with meditation (as a non-believer). My experiences in meditation convinced me that there is something fundamental to human existence. From there, it wasn't hard to accept that God is that foundation. On a fundamental level, we (our core selves) are God in essence, or rather manifestations of God. Though that may sound heretical, I think that was the state of affairs before the fall. The fall happened when human kind, as manifestations of being, assumed the role of Being itself by presuming to be proper judges of what is good and evil. We confused our "godness" with God as such and assumed a role that only God as God can fulfill. Our natures were then corrupted, unable to be and do what we were made to be and do. Enter Jesus, God in the flesh, who came to infuse us with the grace we needed to die to sin and be made alive unto God once again.

Anyway, enough musing. Thank you for all your work! You have helped to save my soul.

How do we get Bishop Barron and Charles Taylor to sit down for a long form conversation??? Upvote if you wanna see this happen!

I appreciate Bishop Barrons high articulation and his condensed knowledge of the classics. Such are very tools for evangelization.

Thank you Bishop Barron, another very informative and thought-provoking lecture.

I was an atheist my self, although born and raised in an Asian Catholic environment in Indonesia. University in Australia made me an 'atheist' for several years because of readings from contemporary atheists and science texts. But now, I am back in the Catholic Church, although still there are questions, and that is why we have this faith isn't it? If we can know everything, there is no so such thing as faith, but it is not blind faith but a reasoned faith in God and His Revelations through the Church, through Jesus Christ.

I believe it is important to counter this new atheistic or even anti-christian culture in the West, and the world, by presenting sound and well-articulated arguments for God and His Church, using the Scriptures, writings of the Saints and also arguments by well-distinguished scholars both within and outside the Church. We have to create a Christian culture which can unlock the minds of the non-affiliated, agnostics, and atheists in the West and around the globe. It is not enough to simply proclaim the Truth of the Gospel, it will not work well to do that for a mass of people who now reject the idea of the transcendent or the supernatural in the first place.

All in all, I believe that your missions and our missions to articulate sound arguments and to create a Christian culture to ready answer the questions on the existence of God for the atheists or agnostics are also works of the Holy Spirit, who will not rest or give up to bring new souls into the House of the Lord, Jesus Christ.

Bishop Barrons words really are ON FIRE in this one!

Bishop Robert Barron, Please come back .

Thank you so much Bishop Barron! So wonderful

May you walk in the grace of our Lord, Bishop Barron.

Excellent!! I will save for further and future Enlightenment. God Bless you Bishop Robert Barron .

May our Lord bless this world with many more preachers with his wisdom and abilities to convey the word of God to all people.

Bishop Barron, your gentle truth-telling has informed part of my renewed approach to evangelising those whom I encounter. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

As a kid I munched on tasty strawberries and stared at the beautiful blue sky, and thought there has to be God. Even now, the thought of Godless heartless universe just evolving on its own seems not only stupid but insane

I'm a catholic and read 2 hours everyday ,without God my life is nothing

Thank you for your powerful voice! You are a great ambassador for the catholic faith 🙏

Thank you, Bishop Barron, for another wonderful exposition of the intellectual cogency of a mature faith. Regarding the way of intelligibility, may I also suggest the classic article "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences" by one of the most illustrious theoretical physicists of the 20th century, Eugene Wigner (Nobel Prize in Physics 1963). As Wigner writes, "The miracle of the appropriateness of the language of mathematics for the formulation of the laws of physics" (what Wigner calls the "empirical law of epistemology") "is a wonderful gift which we neither understand nor deserve."

Dear Bishop Barron, I have recently discovered you thanks to a Roman Catholic priest I've been talking to. You are so compelling, and you really stimulate me to go further in my faith.

But a question: Would it be possible for you to allow me to add Dutch subtitles to this video? I really would like to show it to some of my family members. It would probably make it easier for them if they had subtitles in their own language.

Anyway many many thanks for all your great work, and God bless.

Love Bishop R. Barron

A discussion of this nature is always most welcome. It is true that many of us today no longer believe the way we once did. Yes, we certainly give a lot of weight to scientific explanations and viewpoints. I think that, although we don't readily accept religious ideals, we are open to persuasion. In other words, we want to believe, but we simply cannot.

This is sooo good and sooo relevant, delivered by a true and faithful reading of our tradition, Thank you!

Please put these in podcast forms! It's easier for people to take in if they're on-the-go and is is better for a phone's battery as you can lock your phone and listen.