There was a stupid article in The New Yorker. Scholars debate whether the gospel stories preserve ancient

memories or just Greek literature in disguise. Around Christmas and Easter, there's going to be

the mainstream media going after Christianity. This seems to happen every year. I am so pleased

to welcome on the show, His Excellency, Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, thank you for being here.

Michael, good to see you, as always.

So, Your Excellency, there was a stupid article in the New Yorker.

Now, of course, I have to be a little bit more specific than that.

There was an article that came out March 24th.

We're still not done with Jesus.

That's good news. However, the subtitle here is scholars debate whether the gospel stories preserve ancient memories or just Greek literature

in disguise. But there's a reason they won't stay dead and buried. This is reacting, I think,

to news of a resurgence in Christianity. There was a great story out the UK, some 500 years or so after Henry the 8th. Looks like we're finally getting back at the

Anglicans. The Catholics have overtaken the Anglicans, at least among young people. So things are

looking strong. And no sooner do we get that news than New Yorker tries to debunk Christianity right before Easter.

This seems to happen every year.

Yeah, no, as I say as the swallows come back to Capistrano, you can predict that around Christmas and Easter,

there's going to be the mainstream media going after Christianity.

I remember picking up that article with hope, saying, oh, there's an article about Jesus Jesus and we can't be done with him, so it must be something kind of positive.

As I kept reading it though, I thought, oh, it's a review of Elaine Pagels.

Of course, who's been sort of a neo-nostic critic of Orthodox Christianity for decades.

We read her in the seminary, I mean, a long time ago. And then as I kept reading it, I realized, oh, and he's in favor of Elaine Fagels.

So all the hope went out of the balloon.

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