Robert Barron on interior division and its antidote Reflecting on Mark 1:21-28 Today’s Gospel finds Jesus encountering a man with an unclean spirit in the synagogue at Capernaum. Isn’t it interesting that the first unclean spirit that Jesus confronts is in the holy place, the place of worship? And what marks this man? Though he is […]

Robert Barron on hearing and speaking the Word Some people can hear musical notes, but they are incapable of discriminating clearly and consistently between a melody that is in tune with the accompaniment and one that is off-key. They hear “music,” but they can’t discern between relatively good and bad tones. Something similar obtains in […]