Bishop Robert Barron, a popular Catholic cultural commentator, urged Christians to “keep raising our voices” against the Paris Olympics after the committee attempted to quell outrage over an anti-Christian scene from the opening ceremony.
Barron castigated the Paris Olympics committee after it apologized for depicting the Last Supper of Jesus with sexualized drag queens. Barron, who delivered a viral reaction to the “gross mockery of the Last Supper,” called the committee’s attempt at an apology patronizing.
In another video posted to social media, Barron walked through some of the points of the apology, beginning with the claim that “there was never an intention to show disrespect to any religious group.”
“Give me a break. So, we have a group of drag queens cavorting in a kind of sexually provocative way, clearly an imitation of Da Vinci’s Last Supper, which presents…