Bishop Barron fights 'widespread secularization,' 'dumbed-down' faith with aggressive plan
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Bishop Robert Barron, the second-most followed online Catholic prelate besides Pope Francis, is focusing on Catholic fundamentals to win over lapsed and irregular faithful.
"We [the USCCB] made a decision, I don't know, about four years now to launch this. And it was in response to this Pew Forum study that said 70% of Catholics don't believe in the real presence," Barron told Fox News Digital. "And I'll take a little credit for it. I brought this up in one of our administrative meetings, whatever that was four years ago. And said ‘I think, brothers, we gotta address this problem.'" Timothy Nerozzi is a writer for Fox News Digital. You can follow him on Twitter @timothynerozzi and can email him at timothy.nerozzi@fox.com
Over the last few decades, orthodox understanding of the Eucharist — the central sacrament of the Catholic faith — has been in precipitous decline.