Don’t Demonize—or Divinize—the Powerful - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Don’t Demonize—or Divinize—the Powerful - Bishop Barron's Sunday Sermon

Bishop Robert Barron 

Don’t Demonize—or Divinize—the Powerful

Bishop Robert Barron's Sunday Sermon 

Friends, the first and second readings this Sunday beautifully show both sides of Catholic social teaching: the balance between recognizing political, economic, and social power, and criticizing the abuse of that power. We should not demonize our leaders; we pray for them, and we recognize their importance. But we should not divinize them either; we are deeply aware of the ways that their power can be corrupted.