Father Barron Against The YouTube Heresies

Another part of a video series from Wordonfire.org. Father Barron will be commenting on subjects from modern day culture.

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[Mirandu Kan]

Fr. Barron, re: the behavior of Church leaders, past and present. It's not just a problem of "earthen vessels", it is a fundamental flaw in the very structure of the Catholic Church in that it is rigidly hierarchical and authoritarian in an age where laity are educated and empowered enough to be responsible stewards of divine responsibility that is unrighteously reserved to an unaccountable clerical elite. The persistence of sex abuse coverups is ample evidence that the system is broken.

[wordonfirevideo]

That's too strong, I think. The hierarchical and authoritative quality of Catholic leadership is grounded in the fact of revelation. Something has been definitively given to the Church by God, and it has to be preserved. If we democratize a revelation religion, we compromise its very essence.

[PolishCatholic1]

4:00 - 4:55 brilliant!

Thank you for all you videos, Fr. Barron! They helped me alot to defend my faith against all those militant atheists and fundamentalist Protestants.

[Mirandu Kan]

Since this is your only other post on this video, it makes me wonder if this is meant to be a response to me?

[tom mcewen]

I made a mistake answering Protestants,I came out of protestantism and I should go back to a form of Christianity which hates its neighbor the catholic,I should tell my neighbor that his leader is the Anti-Christ,that the church he leads is the Whore of Babylon,I should return to that, I should return to a church founded yesterday above a gas station and spit on a church founded in 33AD, I should be full of hate for catholics because protestants are. I think not, I made a mistake picking up hate

[Mirandu Kan]

Despite the title "Church Militant", that Catholic Church is not an army. It is the Body of Christ, the collection of ALL believers, ordained or not. Do you believe that in this day and age, the lay people of the Church should just blindly acquiesce to the temporal authority of the "officers", the clergy? It's not about occasional "bad orders", but about a fundamentally broken system, and one that is a severely deficient reflection of the ultimate vision of the Kingdom of God.

[tom mcewen]

I have been a officer,you think an army can exist and win without structure, without soldiers under authority,without NCOs without Officers,without a strategic vision,without a plans and operation center to plan tactical answers to support the strategic end.this army has lasted 2000 years because of authority not in spite of it.Bad orders are better then no orders on the chaos of the battlefield, some officers murder their men in their error, but it is not so with all officers and not the church

[TheWordprophet]

Furthermore, I know of Irenaeus. He is not mentioned in the scripture, but is recorded in some historical accounts. If he was indeed a disciple of Peter, and a bishop, that is well. But if he is responsible for the writings that Catholics ascribe to him, then he verily turned from the faith of Christ to heresy.

Regardless, whether he wrote those things or not, that does not change the verity of God's word. (2 Tim. 3:16)

[TheWordprophet]

Peter may or may not have died in Rome. That is irrelevant.

What is relevant, is that he was never a "pope", and therefore had no "successor". He was an apostle of Christ, and held in abomination the teachings and practices that are taught by the Roman church.

In the Christian church, there is no: pope, costumery, rosary, crucifix, Christmas, Easter, Lent, Good Friday, sacraments, Eucharist, Holy water, trinity, worship of female goddess, praying to statues called saints, cathedrals, etc...

[TheWordprophet]

Neighbor,

The scripture is not my excuse. It is my sword and shield (Eph. 6:17, Prov. 30:5,6).

John 21:24,25 does not in any wise say that there are any Catholics in God's church.

Christians do not believe in a "trinity", or "justification by faith ALONE", or any other of the pernicious doctrines of the Catholics and Protestants.

We hear and obey God's word.

God's church is not universal. It is a remnant.

Matthew 7:13,14

Please seek God in his word, and live.

[bheadh]

You are WRONG friend. Peter died in ROME. It was Peter & Paul's DESIGN to die in Rome. All your version/opinion of the events in THE BEGININNG Acts show is that the Church SPREAD throughout the Near East first. So what? Peter had the AUTHORITY. See Acts 1:15-26 when PETER leads the apostles in having Matthias chosen as the one to "take the office" of Judas. Peters "office" in ROME was taken by HIS SUCESSOR. St. Iranius in 110 A.D. (1 gen. after Peter's death) called the Church "Kata-Holos."

[bheadh]

Freind, you have to lose the EXCUSE "nowhere mentioned in the scriptures." Read John 21:24-25"There are still many other things Jesus did, yet if they were written about in detail, I doubt there would be room enough in the ENTIRE WORLD to hold the books to record them." There is NO "Trinity" in scripture, there is NO "justification by faith ALONE" either.The parroting of these EXCUSES is widespread & error filled. If the "Church of Christ is not universal", what is it? Continental? Galaxy wide?