Bishop Barron's ‘10,000 Holy Hours' prayer campaign cruises past 7,000 mark

Bishop Robert Barron has launched a prayer campaign to notch up "10,000 Holy Hours” in July to coincide with the National Eucharistic Congress being hosted in the US.

The bishop, who is one of the Catholic Church’s biggest social media stars and public figures in the US – a sort of latter-day digital-media-focused Bishop Fulton Sheen – is encouraging Catholics to collectively pray at least "10,000 Holy Hours" in the month of July in the hopes of a "Eucharistic revival" across the US, which is one of the key aims of the National Eucharistic Congress.