Prominent Catholic leader and evangelist Bishop Robert Barron rebuked the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Paris this week for “mocking this very central moment in Christianity.”
Barron, the head of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and viral Catholic influencer, posted a video to X Friday lamenting the startling display of drag queens posing as Christ and his apostles at the Last Supper that was part of the opening ceremony of the summer games in the French capital.
“What do I see but this gross mockery of the Last Supper,” Barron told his more than 285 thousand X followers on Friday.
Barron told Fox News Digital that the spectacle of the drag queen “Last Supper” performance was a sign Christians in the West were becoming too passive and “weak.”
Bishop Barron suggested the left is being open about how they are opponents of Christianity, saying, “I think, folks, what’s interesting here is this deeply secularist, postmodern society knows who its enemy is. They’re naming it. And we should believe them.”
He then urged Catholics and Christians to now cower or stay meek in the face of such anti-Christian bigotry, adding, “We Christians, we Catholics should not be sheepish, we should resist, we should make our voices heard.”
In a statement to Fox News Digital, Barron instructed Christians on how they can push back on this antagonism, stating, “Christians should always resist evil, and I think we have indeed become too weak in the face of our cultural antagonists. Jesus’ command to turn the other cheek is by no means equivalent to passivity, as is evident in the work of Martin Luther King.”
“King used non-violent means to interrupt forms of wickedness that had embedded themselves into our society. Turning the other cheek and going the extra mile are practical strategies for mirroring a person’s injustice back to him so that he might stop what he is doing and repent,” he said.
Barron continued, noting, “We should follow the example of King in his battle for justice: call evil out, name it for what it is, make its negativity known, and endeavor to get in its way.” He also stressed how effective social media can be in fighting evil, saying, “I do believe that today the social media give us a means to accomplish all of these ends. This is why I used my own platforms to resist what was going on in Paris – and I think it was pretty effective.”
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