Rohr has a following for the same reason that Osteen has a following...he makes some people feel good. 

Rohr prides himself in writing faux intellectual points....recently he wrote: “If the Promethean is heroic expression, stoic spirituality is heroic repression.

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Then he asserts that "Jesus never advocates either asceticism or heroism"...ignoring about 20 explicit passages of Jesus to the contrary..and his followers who were with him.

But we're supposed to believe a revisionistic priest 2000 years later, breaking from 2000 years of Church teaching about the centrality of the Cross in Christian life.