USA – Prominent Catholic leader and evangelist Bishop Robert Barron rebuked the opening ceremonies of the Summer Olympics in Paris this week for “mocking this very central moment in Christianity.”
Barron, the head of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester in Minnesota and viral Catholic influencer, posted a video to X Friday lamenting the startling display of drag queens posing as Christ and his apostles at the Last Supper that was part of the opening ceremony of the summer games in the French capital.
“What do I see but this gross mockery of the Last Supper,” Barron told his more than 285 thousand X followers on Friday. Barron told Fox News Digital that the spectacle of the drag queen “Last Supper” performance was a sign Christians in the West were becoming too passive and “weak.”
The controversial display featured numerous performers, including drag queens and a large woman in a halo crown, parodying “The Last Supper,” a universally recognizable painting by renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci of Christ and his apostles on the night of Passover before Christ’s passion and death.
The image sparked outrage among Christians and conservatives online, one of them being Barron, who expressed disappointment that a country with such Catholic heritage would mock such an important event from the Gospels. “France felt evidently, as it’s trying to put its best cultural foot forward, the right thing to do is to mock this very central moment in Christianity, where Jesus at His Last Supper gives His body and blood in anticipation of the cross. And so it’s presented though as this gross sort of flippant mockery,” he said. The bishop, who recently spoke at a major Catholic conference on the Body and Blood of Christ in the sacrament of Holy Communion, continued, noting how the display is so contrary to France’s Catholic history. (Fox News)…[+]
