"The YouTube Heresies"

Father Barron indicates and answers four common fundamental misunderstandings of the critics of faith.

1. What believers mean by God.
2. How the Bible is to be read.
3. The relationship between religion and science.
4. The relationship between religion and violence.

Science is based on two metaphysical (pre-scientific) premises, beliefs
1. That the world is not God.
2. That the world is intelligible.
These two premises are theological assumptions that come from the belief in creation and thus a creator God. "Creation is the theological assumption behind the emergence of the sciences."
If you do not assume intelligibility you will not go to meet the world with your inquisitive intelligence.

Father Barron suffers from a common Neocon blind-spot, viz. the failure to acknowledge that the Latin liturgy is normative according to the Second Vatican Council. SC 36, 54, 101
His contradiction in that regard is evident in his dismissal of the question about it in the post-talk Q & A. As he said with classical Catholic literature being the Catholic equivalent to the very high-caliber academic material of all other areas of education, so we must say that the Catholic equivalent to the excellence in the performing arts and in school sports programs is, in the Western world, the Traditional Latin Liturgy, no question!

N.B. 99. All who pray the divine office, whether in choir or in common, should fulfill the task entrusted to them as perfectly as possible. This refers not only to the internal devotion of mind but also to the external manner of celebration.
   It is, moreover, fitting that whenever possible the office be sung, both in choir and in common.
   100. Pastors of souls should see to it that the principal hours, especially Vespers, are celebrated in common in church on Sundays and on the more solemn feasts. The laity, too, are encouraged to recite the divine office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even individually.
Then 101 says Latin is the proper tongue for it!
Plinthos: Where in the world is this done! Vatican II's deadest letter! No one will even dare to attempt it, in the fear of being labelled and rejected as an backward anti-modern.

Fact is, dumbed down Liturgy is a clear manifestation of anti-clericalism.