Pope Paul VI said that the time is coming when shepherds would again be fishermen. A gifted evangelist who hoped to bridge divides in the Church and open it to a generation hungry for beauty and goodness now finds himself preparing Catholics for a time of shrinkage and retreat.
01 June 2023, The Tablet
The new evangelisation – in the shoes of the fisherman
Bishop Robert Barron in Baltimore in 2019.
photo: alamy/ap, Jose Luis Magana
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