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Bishop Robert Barron

Join Bishop Robert Barron for a weekly podcast on faith and culture. Find more episodes at http://WordOnFireShow.com and submit your questions at http://AskBishopBarron.com.

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Friends, five years ago, we started what has become the largest online community of Catholic evangelists: the Word on Fire Institute.
 
Where did this come from, what’s the purpose of the Institute, and what’s coming next? That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show.”
 
A listener asks, will God still create humans in heaven?
 
00:00 | Intro
 01:17 | Bishop Barron’s USCCB meeting
 02:13 | Updates from the Diocese of Winona-Rochester
 04:06 | Where did Word on Fire Institute come from?
 08:00 | Building an army of Catholic evangelists
 09:36 | St. Thérèse of Lisieux and the Word on Fire Institute
 11:04 | Introducing Dr. Petrusek, new Senior Director of the Institute
 12:52 | What a fully-formed evangelist looks like
 14:53 | Why evangelists should be familiar with popular culture
 17:36 | Why Catholic evangelists must understand the “nones”
 19:31 | The future of the Word on Fire Institute
 21:01 | Master’s Degree in Evangelization and Culture w/ University of St. Thomas
 22:43 | Listener Question
 24:40 | Join the Word on Fire Institute!
 Links Word on Fire Institute • (free 30 day trial!)
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 407: What’s Next for the Word on Fire Institute?

Today, we share a fun discussion between Brandon Vogt and Haley Stewart, Editor of Word on Fire Spark, our new imprint of books for young readers. Topics include:
 
 • Were you a reader growing up? What were some of your favorite books?
 • How would you assess the current landscape of childrens’ books? What’s good? What’s missing?
 • What is Word on Fire Spark and how did it come to be?
 • What is the mission/vision for Spark? How will Spark books stand out among other books for children?
 • Upcoming books from Word on Fire Spark
 • Forthcoming “Spark the Imagination” podcast
 • The Spark Bible – a new Bible for young Catholic readers
 Links Word on Fire Spark Saintly Creatures: 14 Tales of Animals and Their Holy Companions • by Alexi Sargeant
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 408: Great Catholic Kids Books w/ Haley Stewart

Friends, the New Atheism movement rose quickly in the early 2000s, led by vicious critics of religion such as Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. What made their polemics so popular and effective? And how did the New Atheist movement decline and fade almost as quickly over the past few years?
 
That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode, with the help of an excellent new book by Justin Brierley titled The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again.
 
A listener asks, does the Catholic Church teach that the Holy Spirit has a gender?
 
00:00 | Intro
 00:50 | Bishop Barron’s visit to Harvard University
 02:55 | Justin Brierley – The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God
 03:32 | What is the New Atheism?
 07:17 | What led to the rise of the New Atheism?
 10:22 | Why the New Atheism appealed to young people
 12:46 | How the New Atheism began to unravel
 15:43 | How the New Atheism revitalized Christian apologetics
 17:19 | The New Atheism’s failure to provide a satisfying alternative to religion
 21:50 | New questions being asked by seekers and skeptics
 24:21 | Listener question
 26:49 | New book – Know Thyself: Catholic Classical Education and the Discovery of Self
 Links The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again • by Justin Brierley
 Know Thyself: Catholic Classical Education and the Discovery of Self • by Andrew Youngblood
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 409: The Rise and Fall of the New Atheism

Today, we share a discussion between Brandon Vogt and Fr. Steve Grunow, Word on Fire’s CEO and resident Halloween expert.
 
Several years back, Fr. Steve wrote an article for Word on Fire’s website titled “It’s Time for Catholic to Embrace Halloween” that went viral and remains one of our most popular articles of all time.
 
In today’s discussion, Fr. Steve explains what Halloween is fundamentally about, whether it is of pagan origin, and what a properly Catholic celebration of Halloween looks like.
 
00:00 | Intro 
 00:56 | Why is Halloween fascinating? 
 02:11 | What is Halloween fundamentally about? 
 03:10 | All Saints, All Souls, and Halloween 
 05:01 | Excesses in how Halloween is sometimes celebrated 
 06:36 | Is Halloween essentially a pagan holiday? 
 08:33 | Is Halloween evil, a doorway to darkness? 
 11:10 | Memento mori and Halloween 
 12:34 | Connection between Halloween and costumes 
 14:18 | “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”
 14:54 | Candy and Halloween 
 16:31 | What would a properly Catholic celebration of Halloween look like?
 Links “It’s Time for Catholics to Embrace Halloween” • (Word on Fire) – Fr. Steve Grunow
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 410: It's Time for Catholics to Embrace Halloween w/ Fr. Steve Grunow

Today, we’re excited to share with you the newest episode in our “Bishop Barron Presents” series. In this discussion, Bishop Barron talks with writer, filmmaker, and activist Chris Rufo.
 
Chris is the author of a new book titled America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. He has directed four documentaries for PBS and is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and a contributing edi­tor of the public policy magazine City Journal. His reporting and activism have inspired a presidential order, a national grassroots movement, and legislation in twenty-two states.
 
Sit back and take in this latest conversation in our series “Bishop Barron Presents”. Enjoy!
 Links America’s Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything • by Christopher Rufo
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 411: America’s Cultural Revolution w/ Chris Rufo

Friends, an exciting group of psychologists, scientists, and thought leaders are rediscovering the beauty and brilliance of the Bible.
 
What’s causing so many of them to look at the Bible with fresh eyes? That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode, with the help of a new book by Justin Brierley, titled The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again.
 
A listener asks, how can Jesus be, at the same time, a God and a human being since God’s nature and human nature have many differences?
 Links The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again • by Justin Brierley
 The Golden Key and Other Fairy Tales • by George MacDonald
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 413: “Nones” Rediscovering the Bible

Today, we’re excited to share with you a talk that Bishop Barron recently gave at the University of Notre Dame titled “What Makes a University Catholic?”
 
The talk was cosponsored by the Notre Dame Student Government, the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, the McGrath Institute for Church Life, and Campus Ministry.
 
Enjoy!
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 414: What Makes a University Catholic?

Friends, can everything in the world be reduced to atoms bumping against each other, and chemical reactions in our brains? Or is there something more to reality than its material elements?
 
That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode, with the help of a new book by Justin Brierley, titled The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again.
 
A listener asks, if feelings are not acts of the will, what is contrition? A feeling, an act of the will, both, or neither?
 
00:00 | Intro
 00:58 | Word on Fire’s New Ressourcement Conference
 03:10 | The problem with Materialism
 07:56 | The problem with Determinism
 10:57 | Consciousness and the problem it poses to Materialism
 16:34 | Rationality, C.S. Lewis, and atheism
 19:44 | Beauty as a path to transcendence
 23:25 | Materialism’s inadequacy as a source of meaning
 26:03 | The Meaning Crisis without the Highest Good
 29:48 | Listener question
 31:36 | New book—“Popcorn with the Pope”
 Links The Surprising Rebirth of Belief In God: Why New Atheism Grew Old and Secular Thinkers Are Considering Christianity Again • by Justin Brierley
 Popcorn with the Pope: A Guide to the Vatican Film List • by David Paul Baird, Andrew Petiprin, and Michael Ward
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 415: Mind, Meaning, and the Materialists

Today, we’re excited to share with you Bishop Barron’s keynote talk from the 2023 Acton University conference, hosted by The Acton Institute.
 
“Wokeism” is arguably the most influential public philosophy in our country today. It has worked its way into the minds and hearts of our young people, into the world of entertainment, and into the boardrooms of powerful corporations. But what is it precisely, and where did it come from?
 
Bishop Barron argues in his presentation that “wokeism” is a popularization of critical theory, a farrago of ideas coming out of the French and German academies in the mid-twentieth century. Until we understand its origins in the thinking of Adorno, Horkheimer, Derrida, Marcuse, and Foucault, we will not know how critically to engage this dangerous philosophy.
 
 
 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 416: The Philosophical Roots of Wokeism

Friends, is the Christmas story little more than a sweet, saccharine tale about a cute baby being born? Or do the Gospels present something more subversive and revolutionary, a battle between two great kings? That’s what Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s “Word on Fire Show” episode.
 
A listener asks, whose body is the Body of Christ in the Eucharist? Infant, crucified, or resurrected Jesus?
 
00:00 | Intro
 01:31 | Bishop Barron at Good News Conference
 03:56 | The surprising subversiveness of the Christmas story
 05:44 | Christmas details—Caesar and his census
 08:31 | Christmas details—“no room in the inn”
 10:37 | Christmas details—swaddling clothes
 12:06 | Christmas details—laid in a manger
 13:36 | Christmas details—shepherds as first witnesses
 15:47 | Christmas details—“do not be afraid”
 18:38 | Christmas details—“heavenly host” of angels
 23:47 | Why did God come as a baby?
 25:16 | Listener question
 26:43 | Join the WOF Institute
 Links Word on Fire Institute – Join Today! 
NOTE: Do you like this podcast? Become a patron and get some great perks for helping, like free books, bonus content, and more. Word on Fire is a non-profit ministry that depends on the support of our listeners…like you! So be part of this mission, and join us today!

WOF 408: Great Catholic Kids Books w/ Haley Stewart

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