{"id":3031,"date":"2012-05-11T07:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T14:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=3031"},"modified":"2015-07-21T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T18:59:17","slug":"congratulations-to-fr-barron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/congratulations-to-fr-barron\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations Fr. Barron"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As both of my long-time readers know<\/a>, I am a fan of Fr. Robert Barron<\/a>. His Catholicism Project<\/a> is to religion what Carl Sagan’s Cosmos<\/a> was to science.<\/p>\n

T<\/span>herefore, I offer my heart-felt congratulations to Father Barron, who yesterday was appointed Rector of Mundelein Seminary<\/a> in Chicago.<\/p>\n

From the press release:<\/p>\n

The Archbishop of Chicago, Francis Cardinal George, announced today Father Robert Barron has been appointed Rector-President of Mundelein Seminary\/University of St. Mary of the Lake. Father Barron will assume this role in July at the seminary located outside Chicago.<\/p>\n

“As a priest of Jesus Christ I accept this responsibility with joy,” said Father Barron. “The appointment brings together many of the elements that have long been of great importance to me, namely, the priesthood, theological scholarship, pastoral care and evangelization.”<\/p>\n

Barron is currently the Director of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, <\/i>a media group he founded to advance the new evangelization. He will continue in this role and its mission, along with his new appointment at Mundelein. Last year, Word on Fire <\/i>released a 10-part documentary series, Catholicism<\/i><\/b>, which Father Barron created, wrote and hosted. The series aired across the country on PBS and EWTN, and has been seen in parishes, universities and schools throughout the world. The documentary also won a Christopher Award <\/i>for excellence… <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well done, Father Barron!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As both of my long-time readers know, I am a fan of Fr. Robert Barron. His Catholicism Project is to religion what Carl Sagan’s Cosmos was to science. Therefore, I offer my heart-felt congratulations to Father Barron, who yesterday was appointed Rector of Mundelein Seminary in Chicago. From the press release: The Archbishop of Chicago, Francis Cardinal George, announced today Father […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[57,32,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bishop-robert-barron","category-inside-baseball","category-moments-in-time"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-MT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":85842,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/ordination-mass-for-bishop-elect-robert-barron\/","url_meta":{"origin":3031,"position":0},"title":"Ordination Mass for Bishop-Elect Robert Barron","author":"Thom","date":"08 September 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"As both of my long-time readers know, I am a fan of Fr. 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