And the fault lines of this division were evident in the contrasting reactions to Peterson’s recent appearance with Bishop Barron. His outspokenness on contested issues like identity politics, innate differences between men and women, and the need for order in life and society has garnered a significant following - nearly 7 million subscribers on YouTube and more than 4 million Twitter followers - and also polarizing reactions from across the cultural landscape.īut Peterson is nearly as controversial among Catholics as he has proved to be in the mainstream. Peterson, who has a doctorate in clinical psychology, has sparked heated debate ever since his 2016 rise to fame for opposing a Canadian bill that defined refusing to use a person’s preferred pronouns as “gender-based harassment,” and he hasn’t shied away from fraught questions since. Peter’s Square sparked controversy on Catholic Twitter - not because of anything Bishop Barron said, but because of whom the American prelate and evangelist was filming with: Jordan Peterson, the Canadian psychologist-turned-internationally-recognized-social commentator and lightning rod for media controversy. Recent photos of Bishop Robert Barron filming in St.
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