Bishop Robert Barron has addressed the issue of the separation of Church and State and taking one’s faith into the public space after being critiqued on the matter by a columnist with the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, a well-known and respected legacy media publication in the US.
The bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and founder of Word on Fire Ministries, who is one of the US Catholic Church's most prominent voices on social media, hit back at the columnist for espousing a position that Barron said is prominent among an "elite liberal class" that controls many of society's institutions and which, he said, fears "confident and assertive religious people" who refuse to conform to secular mantras.
