Bishop Barron Meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican, Ordains 18 Deacons in St. Peter's Basilica

Winona-Rochester Bishop Barron gets personal audience with Pope Leo at Vatican

"It was just a very comfortable conversation," Bishop Robert Barron said.

Bishop Barron meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican, ordains 18 deacons in St. Peter's Basilica

ROME (OSV News) — Bishop Robert E. Barron met Pope Leo XIV for a private audience at the Vatican Oct 1, describing his first extended, one-on-one conversation with a pope as covering “a lot of different topics.” The Chicago-born pope opened with a hometown connection, “‘Well, two guys from Chicago,'” Bishop Barron recalled Pope Leo telling him. “It was just a very comfortable conversation. We covered a lot of different topics, but it was just de…

Bishop Barron meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican, ordains 18 deacons in St Peter's Basilica

Bishop Robert E. Barron met Pope Leo XIV for a private audience at the Vatican 1 October, describing his first extended, one-on-one conversation with a pope as covering "a lot of different topics."

Bishop Barron meets Pope Leo XIV at Vatican, ordains 18 deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica

"When you hear the pope speaking in the dulcet tones of Chicago, I think that has an impact on Americans," Bishop Barron said.

Bishop Barron ordains 18 deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica

Bishop Robert Barron of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, ordained 18 men from the North American College in Rome as transitional deacons in St. Peter’s Basilica on Thursday.