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BISHOP BARRON: AOC mocks Western culture — Marx would love that, but I find it chilling

I speak against this radicalism not simply as a concerned American, but also as a bishop of the Catholic Church

By Bishop Robert Barron Fox News

Published February 22, 2026 10:00am EST

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Many have commented favorably on the speech that Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave recently at a security conference in Munich.  What they seemed to admire most was his willingness to look beyond some of the particular political and economic matters that preoccupy policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic — the Ukraine War, climate change, immigration, etc. — and to consider the cultural convictions that both Europe and America share. 

Secretary Rubio lyrically invoked Dante, the Cologne Cathedral, Shakespeare, the democratic form of government, the university system — even the Beatles and the Rolling Stones — as representations of that common vision.  But then he took a further step that especially caught my attention.  Very much in the spirit of both Pope Benedict XVI and the church historian Christopher Dawson, he observed that culture is tightly linked to cult, that is to say, to religion.  In a word, all the things that........

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