By Peter Laffin, The Catholic Thing - Each time Barron bemoans “wokeness,” he is met with comments from the Left expressing a vague “disappointment.”.. Other offenses of Barron’s against progressive Catholicism include but are not limited to: his insistence that abortion is the preeminent moral issue of the age... On multiple scores, Barron is not a Churchman of the Left... But Barron is also not a traditionalist.