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\"\"Our cable carrier picks up WGN, the network from Chicago which aired several videos from\u00a0Fr. Robert Barron\u2019s 10-part series\u00a0titled \u201cCatholicism.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0The series\u2013at least, four parts of it\u2013will be coming to PBS in October, with the other six videos to be aired on EWTN beginning in November.\u00a0 I jumped through hoops to see the first ones, adjusting my schedule so that I could attend Mass on Saturday, then sit glued in front of the TV on Sunday morning.\u00a0 I\u2019m here to tell you that it\u2019s GREAT!!<\/p>\n

I was more than happy, then, when I was asked to review the companion book, Catholicism: \u00a0A Journey to the Heart of the Faith<\/strong>\u00a0for the Patheos website.\u00a0 Here is a part of what I wrote:<\/p>\n

For a brief moment when I first opened the book, I enjoyed a sense of smug superiority. The first line in the first paragraph in the Introduction asks the question, \u201cWhat is the Catholic thing?\u201d Father Barron explains that for Blessed John Henry Newman, \u201cthe Catholic thing\u201d was the Incarnation, encapsulated in John 1:14, which says, \u201cThe Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo!\u201d I exclaimed to no one in particular. \u201cThat\u2019s the Christian <\/em>thing!\u201d For surely, I thought, Catholics share this core belief with believers from all the Christian denominations.<\/span><\/p>\n

But two pages later, Father Barron burst my ego bubble, catching me unawares with a distinction that I\u2019d known at some primal level but never elucidated: Catholicism, he noted, has a keen sense of the prolongation of the Incarnation throughout space and time, an extension that is made possible through the mystery of the Church. Jesus didn\u2019t just enter the world on Christmas Day in the year 6 A.D. He enters yet today in the liturgy; in the graced governance of popes and bishops; in the texts, arguments, and debates of the theologians; in Catholic writing and art and in great cathedrals. He enters yet today, I realized, in my own humble prayer and in my daily work.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There\u2019s more, though.\u00a0 Stop over at Patheos and read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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