CNA Staff, Mar 1, 2024 / 17:30 pm (CNA).
Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, Bishop Robert Barron last week hosted a prayer vigil outside a local Planned Parenthood, an effort the prelate said was meant to “pray for the conversion of hearts and minds to protect the most vulnerable in our society.”
The bishop posted photos of the Rochester-area event to his Twitter account on Tuesday afternoon. “Friends, on Friday evening I prayed outside a Planned Parenthood with a number of other individuals who tirelessly devote their time and prayers to the unborn,” he wrote.
Friends, on Friday evening I prayed outside a Planned Parenthood with a number of other individuals who tirelessly devote their time and prayers to the unborn. We must continue to pray for the conversion of hearts and minds to protect the most vulnerable in our society and to… pic.twitter.com/op7qF6s83u
— Bishop Robert Barron (@BishopBarron) February 27, 2024
“We must continue to pray for the conversion of hearts and minds to protect the most vulnerable in our society and to stand firm in protest against the culture of death,” the bishop said.
Peter Martin, the director of communications for the diocese, told CNA that Barron “joined the seminarians from the Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary (Winona) for an hour of prayer as a part of the 40 Days for Life in Rochester.”
“This has been an annual event in our diocese and the bishop and seminarians join each year to pray for an end to abortion,” Martin said.
The participants “are there to pray for all those involved, in particular, for the lives of the unborn and their mothers.”
Barron, who founded the Catholic media company Word on Fire prior to his elevation to the bishopric, has regularly used his expansive platform to advocate for the unborn and speak against abortion.
The bishop recently engaged with California Democratic Rep. Ro Khanna in a wide-ranging discussion that touched in part on abortion. Khanna is pro-abortion and voiced his opinion during the conversation that abortion “should be for the woman and her doctor” to decide.
The politician suggested that too much attention is paid to late-term abortions, which he called “exceedingly rare cases.”
“Even if that were the case, that is still a lot of babies being murdered from our perspective,” Barron responded. “And how is that ever acceptable in a decent society?”
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Hallelujah! Hoity-toity hits the streets!
All jesting aside, Bishop Barron is a gifted communicator, but his witness is most welcome outside the American Auschwitz.
Happy Lent to all.
Economist Jeffrey Sachs has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. Don’t be disconcerted. Jeffrey Sachs has got the math all figured out, that is when we reach our sustainable age limitation. This pontificate is thinking ahead in our best interests. Be assured Jefrey’ll give us a consoling earful. Like advanced notice.
Bishop Barron joining a scarce few bishops who have led prayer protests, what’s required and more. More and more a culture of death. It’s not that complicated. When we deny the Author of life the value of life becomes subject to practical considerations. Like cattle we reach a point of departure when we no longer provide for sustainability. Mankind increasingly disinterested in the light of Christ prefers the darkness. When it’s dark we don’t pay much attention to what irritates our vision.