If available information about Mass attendance since the COVID-19 outbreak is true, then there was certainly significant cause for Word on Fire and Catholic Voices’ conference on identifying the ways of sharing the Church’s story in the modern world.
The key speaker at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre opposite Westminster Abbey was American Bishop Robert Barron– a man who knows just a thing or two about the subject.
Since his first YouTube uploads containing pithy five- to ten- minute videos (frequently discussing religious themes in Hollywood movies or common misconceptions about Catholic beliefs) in the mid 2000s, he’s become one of the most influential voices in the Catholic world. Amassing 606,000 subscribers, attracting (at the time of writing) 124,840,720 views and a further 3,100,000 followers on Facebook, the Bishop of Winona-Rochester is someone who has shared the story of the Church in a way that cuts through and both alights interests and attention.
