The unique challenges of candidate Barron

The prospect of “Word on Fire presidency” poses hard questions at the USCCB.

When the U.S. bishops’ conference elects a new president next week, the most famous of U.S. diocesan bishops will be among the candidates: Bishop Robert Barron, who is both the bishop of a rural Minnesota diocese, and the head of an international apostolate, with probably more reach and brand recognition than any other Catholic institution in the United…