Robert Burns once wrote of the gift of seeing “oursels as ithers see us”. Perspective is indeed a wonderful thing and it was something that British Catholics benefitted from recently with the visit of Bishop Robert Barron from the US to the UK.
The visit had been a long time in the planning. Twice delayed on account of Covid and national mourning following the Queen’s death, Bishop Barron finally arrived in February for his week-long trip. As his plane touched down at Heathrow, a colleague simply messaged to say “the eagle has landed”.
