A young man named Robert Barron was raised in a large Roman Catholic family in New Jersey; and, in the late 1990s, he decided to study in Rome and there became a strict and devoted Catholic. As he studied in Rome in the early 2000s, however, he came to realize that there were serious problems with many of the Church's teachings. He began to study these teachings from a scholarly standpoint and discovered that they were not what had been entrusted to him by his parents. In the mid-2000s, he began to engage in serious research on the Bible and discovered that it is not what had been passed down to him by his parents
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Since then, he has written over a dozen books that have been translated into eight languages. He is a prolific researcher on biblical topics and is known as one of the leading experts on Catholicism and Pope Francis worldwide.