Editorial: Bishop Barron goes to Washington. Will it be a word in flames or a fog wall?

Bishop Robert Barron, founder of the Catholic Media Organization Juggernaut Catholic Media, will today as a special guest to President Trump's first speech to the congress since the re -election as well as a special guest at the first joint speech by President Trump and as a solemnity of a trade fair for federal legislature before the speech.

From a distance, the invitation seems to be a strange event of a newcomer to the House of Representatives, Rep. Riley Moore, Republican of West Virginia, to the Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota. However, Barron said he was grateful for the invitation. “I am looking forward to this opportunity both as a Catholic bishop and as an enthusiastic student of American history,” he said on the X Social Media platform X Social Media, where he has almost 325,000 followers.

Invitations to the corridors of power can be dangerous, but Barron with all his understanding of internet and understanding the history of the United States is certainly aware of the pitfalls.

Perhaps he is grateful for the favorable opportunity to tell the powerful truth in this discouraging national moment. To date, he has strangely silent about the topics that are of great importance for his brother Bishops and his Pope.

Maybe he was just waiting for the moment that would achieve the biggest effect.

Homily helps are plenty of available. Let us offer his excellence a home aid. It is rare that the heart of our gospel speaks so clearly and clearly for current politics. As a representative of the Catholic Church of the US Church, Barron only has to refer to the various statements of the Catholic leaders on behalf of immigrants and from the Catholic efforts to support the desolation in other parts of the world. In the gospel in real time from the gospel.

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, President of the US Bishops' Conference, listed what he described as the increasingly disturbing elements of the president's agenda: the treatment of immigrants and refugees, foreign help, expansion of the death penalty and the environment. These guidelines, said Broglio, “will have negative consequences, many of which are most harmful to us.”

If someone questioned the legitimacy or correctness of the widespread concerns in the US bishops, Pope Francis issued a letter in which she reaffirmed her alarm and implicitly insulted it because she no longer spoke out more. In an eloquent and extremely unusual communication, he advocated us Catholics to reject the narrative on which the Trump government is based on its mass protection campaign.

Barron may also want to take his break in his sermon to support Cardinal Robert Mcelroy, who arrived at the law firm in Hyattsville, Maryland this week and later installed as a new Archbishop of Washington this month. Mcelroy condemned the mass protection scheme in a recent prayer service: “We have to speak and announce that this unfolding misery and suffering and yes, war of fear and terror cannot be tolerated in our middle.”

Barron could also mention the need for the great church organizations -Catholic relief goods, Catholic charity organizations and the US office for Jesuit rumor services. You can provide convincing and deeply disturbing testimony for the devastation and suffering of humans with the exclusion of foreign help by the government.

We could suggest that Barron also relates the experience of two youngest popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, who lived under dictators, to question the distortions of the administration in relation to the invasion of Russia in Ukraine by Russia – and to warn against Trump's preference to prevent the guardian authoritarian, Parldimir Putin.

Nothing good can come from the collision to brutal dictators. As we wrote at the beginning of this year, silence is complicity in the face of Trump's cruelty.

The church in the United States is called to an unusual moment of the witness in public square. The call is nothing less than the cold cruelty, which turn to the most desperate abroad from conscious guidelines to demonize the most desperately endangered at home.

We remain amazed by Barron's silence. God gave the bishop a megaphone in social media, a bullying pulpit, a mighty platform with which he has an effect on the most dividing, ideological cultural war nettle, while he looks at the most vulnerable in society. We sincerely pray for Barron that God gives him the courage to say these truths of the gospel while visiting the capital of our nation.

Or Barron can continue to ignore all of these difficult topics and the consensus of his brother Bischöfe and Pope Francis. If he does it, he would simply become another clergy, which is manipulated and exploited from the far right, a few fleeting moments in the balcony of the House of Representatives during a joint meeting of the congress and an Attaboy from Trump, Vice President JD Vance and their gang of Bullies.

If the Bishop of Winona-Rochester took on the difficult topics and worked out the hard truths of the gospel in the social teachings of the Church in modern times, he could risk the displeasure of the legislators. This degree of courage could even have him reduced from speech.

Talk about the word in flames.