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2020-06-17T19:29:52-05:00

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Catholics: They Are Not Coming Back…Unless…

Last updated on: June 17, 2020 at 7:29 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

They Are Not Coming Back They’re not coming back to Mass. Let me say it again. Catholics will not come back to Mass when the pandemic is over. I know, parishes will say that their wait lists are full and they are at max capacity for Sunday Mass right now. But that’s right now, when we can only have a hundred people, or a congregation of 25-35% of a church’s capacity. We priests have all heard the yearning of... Read more

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2020-06-03T20:19:15-05:00

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The Two-Edged Sword Of Hypocrisy–The Archbishop And The President

Last updated on: June 3, 2020 at 8:19 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Two Difficult Days For Presidential Photo-Ops It was awkward, there on the public sidewalk outside the Church of the Presidents, holding a Bible. The next day, it wasn’t. That day, it was truly a moving private moment with a man and woman kneeling in front of a relic of Pope St. John Paul the Great. I’m talking about the two photo-ops that caused such consternation recently: the President holding up a Bible in the midst of a riot torn city,... Read more

2020-05-31T12:36:45-05:00

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Catholic Mass with Masks

Last updated on: May 31, 2020 at 12:36 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Peek-a-boo, I see you. The Church Cautiously Re-opens. St. Rita Parish, where I am priest help, opened its doors to its first Sunday Mass Worshipers in months. I was there to welcome them in for the 7 am and 7:45 am Masses. It was great to have Mass with people again. I had begun to wonder if I was the last Catholic in America. Here are some random thoughts about the experience. Super organized with ten volunteers to give instructions,... Read more

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2020-05-31T12:27:03-05:00

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Supreme Court Punts On Pandemic Religious Restrictions

Last updated on: May 31, 2020 at 12:27 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Supremes At Work Although it looks like Chief Justice Roberts muddied the waters as usual in preventing the court from decisively ruling on the constitutionality of religious restrictions in the face of the pandemic, a second look shows a more pragmatic reason. The court’s upholding the right of the state to set some restrictions on religious gatherings seems to rest on two points. First, religious gatherings are not like businesses because gatherings are more socially intensive and lengthy. They... Read more

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2020-05-31T11:59:58-05:00

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A Wonderful Dali Ascension

Last updated on: May 31, 2020 at 11:59 am By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Hello Dali!!! Hello, Dali!!! On this Feast of the Ascension, it is worth looking at one of the most intriguing and vibrant paintings of the Ascension. But before we see what a masterpiece Dali has created, we ought to look at the Ascension itself. Only in the past several years, have I really understood the Ascension as perhaps the central dogma of our faith. Why do I say this? Well think about it. How do we have any contact... Read more

2020-04-01T22:31:58-05:00

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One Friday In Lent, The Papacy Embraced The World

Last updated on: April 1, 2020 at 10:31 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

As the Dark was rising, There in the dying of the light, He walked alone, Dressed in white, A candle of hope. The rain fell long, There in the dying of the light, As the Dark was rising. erb A Grand Gesture, An Iconic Moment They speak better with gestures than words–the Popes through the ages. Words can be misunderstood, easily forgotten. Not gestures, not the simple acts of humanity. We saw that last Friday, March 27 in the eerily... Read more

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2019-12-08T17:25:23-05:00

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Sabotaging Sheen: Shepherds Suborning Sanctity

Last updated on: December 8, 2019 at 5:25 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Lifting the Cloud on the Beatification Scandal Hard to believe that the cloud surrounding the Bishop Sheen beatification fiasco would clear so quickly and become so patently understandable. Thanks has to be given to Msgr. James Kruse, the Vicar General of Peoria and member of the Bishop Sheen Foundation. In a six page memorandum, he clearly sets out the timeline and the facts stipulating that the Diocese of Rochester sabotaged the process and that Bishop Matano enlisted other archbishops to... Read more

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2019-12-05T23:59:40-05:00

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Sheen Cause Over?

Last updated on: December 5, 2019 at 11:59 pm By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Ominous whisperings from Rome tonight concerning the beatification cause of Bishop Sheen have trickled stateside. Rocco Palma, writer of the Blog Whispers in the Loggia, tweeted earlier today the following, Amid ongoing “surprise & confusion” over sudden Beatification halt, early Thursday, a house op in Rome relayed that “Sheen cause is over” – read: permanently. Given the gravity of the report, Whispers sought a formal comment from the Holy See… …6 hours later, no response. And that tweet was amid the shadowy... Read more

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2019-12-06T00:09:55-05:00

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No Taking The Shine Off Sheen

Last updated on: December 6, 2019 at 12:09 am By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

UPDATE #1 12/4/19: Today it was revealed by CNA that the Bishop of Rochester, NY, where Sheen once served as Bishop, requested the delay in his beatification. Here are the salient facts: Bishop of Rochester requests delay from Vatican Ambassador because of fear that Sheen might be mentioned in a New York Attorney General Report on how dioceses have handled sexual abuse cases in the past. There does not seem to be a relevant case, just a fear of one... Read more

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2019-12-06T00:05:25-05:00

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Gay Marriage, Communion, Catholicism: When Mercy and Dogma Meet

Last updated on: December 6, 2019 at 12:05 am By Monsignor Eric Barr, STL

Gay Marriage and Communion A few days ago, Fr. Scott Nolan, pastor of St. Stephen’s Catholic Church, picked up his phone knowing he had to make a difficult phone call. Any priest would recognize the dilemma. Fr. Nolan had to tell a prominent, Mass-going, practicing Catholic Judge, Sara Smolenski, that she could no longer receive Communion at Mass. Why? Because she was “married” to another woman. Apparently, the week before, Judge Smolenski and some of her friends had appeared at... Read more

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