Gospel according to Mick Jagger?

This morning's Chicago Tribune had an unusual theology lesson in a story about Fr. Bob Barron, who will lead a series of talks for the Archdiocese of Chicago patterned after Protestant revival services.

A Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan fan who teaches systematic theology at the University of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Fr. Barron has "an ability to translate serious theological scholarship into lessons everyone can understand," according to Tribune religion reporter Margaret Ramirez. She cited an interview she had with him recently at the residence of Cardinal Francis George:

"Did you catch the Super Bowl?" Barron asked excitedly. "The Rolling Stones seemed to be singing what it's all about, right there. `I can't get no satisfaction.' It's something we're all feeling. It's a deep Augustinian impulse."

The theologian St. Augustine of Hippo, who lived from 354 to 430 A.D., said, among other things, we seek God when we feel our secular lives are empty.