n his message, "Jesus and the Scapegoat", Bishop Robert Baron, reflects on a story from the 8th Chapter from John's Gospel. He says that this biblical passage presents a "world predicated not upon violence, not upon hatred of the other, but a world predicated upon compassion and forgiveness and non-violence."
Bishop Robert E. Baron became Auxillary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2015. He received a M.A. in Philosophy from the Catholic University of America in 1982 and a Doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992. After his ordination, he served as associate pastor at St. Paul of the Cross Parish in Park Ridge, Illinois. Later he was appointed to the theological faculty of Mundelein Seminary, and has served as a visiting professor at the University of Notre Dame and at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, as well as scholar in residence at the North American Pontifical College at the Vatican.
This archived 30 Good Minutes program first aired in January 2002.