Bishop Barron Presents | Chris Rufo - America’s Cultural Revolution

Friends, in the 15th episode of Bishop Barron Presents, I had the pleasure of sitting down with filmmaker, author, and activist Chris Rufo. We discussed woke ideology, Catholic social teaching, and the state of our nation and culture.

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[crushtheserpent]

Am very glad we will have a voice like Bishop Barron at the Synod on Synodality!

[MarlonSamir]

Thank you to the Word on Fire ministry and Chris Rufo for this incredible contribution to our understanding❤❤ Greetings from México

[Alextangents]

Father, thank you for this conversation. I identify with Chris a whole lot, I am a 30 yr old man having a massive ideological shift and his words have helped me a lot. God bless you Father and Chris, thank you ♥️ 💙

[marynayna]

We must encourage and support families, couples growing in love together living there roles as mother and father so children feel secure and are able thrive and go on to create their own families 🙏❤️

[josiemascorro]

The hand of God was definitely in this amazing discussion!! This discussion left me with such hope for the culture, and our children.

Thank you and God bless you both.

[CH-Wisdom]

As a retired Catholic School elementary school principal, I am mystified by the lack of vision in our Catholic leaders. They do not see the move toward pantheism in honouring "the land' and abandoning the Gospel; in focusing on the lands of the indigenous people and not on the cross; focusing on self-identity instead of the discovery of God's word; focusing on earth activism while ignoring the poor right in front of them.
We need courageous priests and bishops to speak of these things at mass on Sunday. We need to stop flying the pride flag; stop jumping at every political distraction; stop allowing anything and everything to take us away from raising God up in our homes, in our schools and in our workplaces!

[alisonjane]

I have followed Rufo's work for the past 4 years or so. He is brilliant!

[jankopandza]

Group of women was led by Kate Millett (1934–2017), one of the early grandmothers of feminism’s second wave. She was the author of the “Sexual Politics, ” . The “litany” went like this:

“Why are we here today?” the chairwoman asked.
“To make revolution, ” they answered.
“What kind of revolution?” she replied.
“The Cultural Revolution, ” they chanted.
“And how do we make Cultural Revolution?” she demanded.
“By destroying the American family!” they answered.
“How do we destroy the family?” she came back.
“By destroying the American patriarch, ” they cried exuberantly.
“And how do we destroy the American patriarch?” she probed.
“By taking away his power!”
“How do we do that?”
“By destroying monogamy!” they shouted.
“How can we destroy monogamy?”
“By promoting promiscuity, eroticism, prostitution, abortion, and homosexuality!” they resounded.

[LynnMarieT]

Excellent book, Christopher. Thank you for your work. 44:38

[reniaesaddler]

This all happened while we Catholics were sleeping. Time for US to wake up, embrace our Catholic Social Teaching, and use our updated understanding to spread peace wherever there is discord, which is everywhere.

[dorianwalker]

The Bishop’s continued incredulity at the speed and ease with which wokeism took over the culture speaks to the inadequacy of Rufo’s thesis. It needs to be supplemented with a critique of the liberalism which preceeded it which shares so much philosophical and mythical content with communism, and furthermore lacks the political equipment to deal with any such subversive movement.

[margaret]

Thank you for this discussion. Most people don’t even realize we are in a cultural war.
This is needed. 🇨🇦

[ameliakelleywiley]

If only this remarkably thought provoking presentation could be shown nationwide before and after all the national news broadcasts each evening then such an astonishing penetration of, followed by the opening of, hearts, minds and most especially souls would be the blessed result! Thank you, Bishop Barron and Mr. Rufo for helping us to “see” then “verbalize”because I am certain there was a grand chorus of “That’s it!! This … this is what I’ve wanted to express and convey” … a very grateful chorus which echoed my own! I am sharing in Christ’s love for you tonight!

[anneclark]

I am an OLD Catholic School Teacher who is very sad about the state of these recent movements. I am concerned about what is being taught in our universities. Thank you for a well thought out discussion of real issues that affect our children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. God bless you.🙏🙏

[mrush]

Wow! Great discussion! These videos need to reach the world! Awesome talk! God bless you!

[roseannewoo]

An excellent and timely discussion by two highly intellectual contemporary thinkers. Politicians, academics, and all citizens: we should all listen to this talk.

[vaportrails]

Continuing to listen, and continuing to be amazed at how Bishop Barron keeps asking “how did it happen so fast?”, while not connecting the dots that it’s because Barack Obama became president. He was born and raised in this ideology and marinated in it his whole life. He said what he knew people wanted to hear, and he pushed as far as he thought he could get away with. This ideology was his agenda from day one, and the fact that anyone doesn’t realize that at this point is astonishing to me. He appointed believers in this ideology throughout the federal government, and many of them are still there. And corporate America bent the knee on all of this stuff because that’s what they do for whoever is in power. Which was Obama. That’s how all of this happened.

We knew about his associations with people like Frank Marshall Davis, Derrick Bell, Jeremiah Wright, and Bill Ayers before he was elected. Those things don’t happen by accident. He never repudiated or disavowed any of them, or their ideas. In office, the most frequent visitor to the White House was Al Sharpton, who had been completely discredited and disavowed by everyone for decades due to his disgraceful record. The far left saw his election as the go sign, and sprinted forward.

The Ferguson riots happened when Obama was still in office. And so on. Anyone who thinks this stuff suddenly sprang to life in 2020 had to be sleeping for 12 years before that.

[DavidDiLillo]

Amazing points around 51:00 regarding primary virtues versus circumstantial virtues.

[LouisBiacchi]

Very good discussion that all concerned Americans should watch and listen.

[christinetuthill]

This conversation spoke to the fear I have for the future. Thank you for clarity of very difficult topics.