I have a very nervous friend who is an adherent to the Novus Ordo - all the while criticizing its political correctness.  She has asked me about the following two items.  Before I try to answer, I thought to offer the questions to you all on CathInfo, so as to get a better selections of answers before trying to respond.  

She wanted to know about:  

1.  Bishop Robert Barron CA - any opinions?

2. Who creates “dogma” ?  If a corrupt, sinful, pope initiated a dogma, would it be valid?

Thank you for any help and God bless you.

Re: +Barron... I'll just throw these out there...

As a Non-Believing Jєω Ben Shapiro Gets a Free Pass to Heaven from Bishop Barron


https://youtu.be/OYWBNMOCrlo?t=608

Now, I do not think +Barron is an evil person (unlike some other prelates whom shall remain nameless).  But, he just seems to dance around too many issues that shouldn't require any dancing whatsoever.

I have a very nervous friend who is an adherent to the Novus Ordo - all the while criticizing its political correctness.  She has asked me about the following two items.  Before I try to answer, I thought to offer the questions to you all on CathInfo, so as to get a better selections of answers before trying to respond.  

She wanted to know about:  

1.  Bishop Robert Barron CA - any opinions?

2. Who creates “dogma” ?  If a corrupt, sinful, pope initiated a dogma, would it be valid?

Thank you for any help and God bless you.

I don't know anything about the bishop, but the dogma you are speaking of, is simply doctrine, defined ex cathedra. I think your signature exemplifies this very well, but no one creates dogma.  

Not sure what is meant by a pope initiating a dogma, but the Holy Ghost will never permit an invalid dogma from either a saintly or a corrupt pope. There is simply no such thing as an invalid dogma.        

Bishop Barron comes off as a huge phony to me.   Something off about him.  He's too smooth.

My diocese idolizes him.

The apostate "Bishop" Barron teaches and says here, "even atheists can make it to Heaven"

Yes" Bishop " Barron believes Hell is empty....

Doctrinal Universalism
Barron professes the heresy of doctrinal universalism,

The theory that hell is essentially a kind of purgatory in which sins are expiated, so that eventually everyone will be saved. Also called apokatastasis, it was condemned by the church in A.D. 543, against the Origenists, who claimed that

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the punishment of devils and wicked men is temporary and will eventually cease, that is to say, that devils or the ungodly will be completely restored to their original state

(Denzinger 411).

Balthasar & Barron believe hell is empty.
The Modernist, syncretist, New Theologian Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905-1988), influenced by the fake mystic Adrienne von Speyr, promoted the heresy that hell is empty. He also wrote the afterword of a book on Tarot cards and the occult.
Barron wrote the preface to the 2^nd edition of Balthasar's Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved.

One cannot hope for the impossible.
The intellectual virtue of faith precedes the virtue of hope, which exists in the will, since the intellect precedes the will (cf. 21^st Thomistic thesis). The object of hope cannot contradict reason.
Discussing how faith precedes hope in Summa Theologica II-II q. 17 a. 7 co., St. Thomas Aquinas writes:

the object of hope is a future good, arduous but possible to obtain
_{Obiectum enim spei est bonum futurum arduum possibile haberi.}

Thus, one cannot hope for impossible things, e.g., that God doesn't exist, that He contradict Himself, that the Church's dogmas change, that 2+2=5, etc.

Religious Indifferentism
Related to his universalist heresy, Barron professes the heresy of religious indifferentism, which holds that no one religion is necessary for salvation. Recently, he told a Jєω that Jesus is the "privileged way" of salvation, which implies there are other means of salvation, directly contradicting, e.g., Acts 4:12 ("Neither is there salvation in any other. For there is no other name under heaven given to men, whereby we must be saved.").

Hell exists, and its punishments are perpetual.
Athanasian Creed (D 40):

those who have done good, will go into life everlasting, but those who have done evil, into eternal fire
^{qui bona egerunt, ibunt in vitam æternam, qui vero mala, in ignem æternum}

The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) defined the dogma that the rejected will receive (D 429):

everlasting punishment with the devil
^{cuм diabolo pœnam perpetuam}

Once a soul is damned, there is no hope that it will be saved.
These dogmas are de fide ("of the faith"). Contradicting a de fide truth incurs the censure of heresy; the effects of denying it are:

Mortal sin committed directly against the virtue of faith, and, if the heresy is outwardly professed, excommunication is automatically incurred and membership of the Church forfeited.

(source)

Truth creates dogma.

The apostate "Bishop" Barron teaches and says here, "even atheists can make it to Heaven"

I'm not convinced he's apostate, but I grant that this is horrendous.  I can't see any logical way an atheist could be saved, and I'm liberal on EENS by this group's standards.