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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, how do we educate the whole person? Religious sister and mental health counselor Sr. Josephine Garrett talks about this question in her keynote speech at the recent Good News Conference.
 
In her talk, Sr. Josephine shares how in order for the whole person to be educated, the object of the education must be properly ordered to the love of God.
 Links Good News Conference

WOF 368: Educating the Whole Person w/ Sr. Josephine Garrett

Friends, we just marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of Vatican II, the Second Vatican Council. Six decades later, can we say the Council was a success? A failure? Something in between?
 
On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt discuss a provocative pair of op-eds published in the New York Times by Ross Douthat, who argues that the Council was both necessary and a failure, and yet cannot be undone.
 
A listener asks, if God is without form, then at the Transfiguration, what was Jesus transformed into?
 Links “How Catholics Became Prisoners of Vatican II” • – Ross Douthat
 “How Vatican II Failed Catholics—and Catholicism” • – Ross Douthat
 The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection The Paschal Mystery: Reflections for Lent and Easter • (Word on Fire Lent booklet)
 
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WOF 369: Was Vatican II a Failure?

Friends, the Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life. In the Mass, God is glorified and humans are sanctified.
 
In his keynote address at the recent Good News Conference, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll walks us through the beauty and richness of the Mass, in which we worship the Lord and then are sent out to proclaim the Good News of Jesus’ victory over sin and death.
 
Abbot Jeremy is a Benedictine monk and was elected the 12th abbot of Mount Angel Abbey, elected by the community in March of 2016. He has taught theology at Mount Angel Seminary and at Sant’ Anselmo in Rome. He continues to serve on various Vatican commissions, conducts conferences and retreats throughout the world, and continues to write and publish.
 Links Good News Conference 
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WOF 370: Source and Summit of Evangelization w/ Abbot Jeremy Driscoll

Friends, do we have a right to choose how and when we die? Should we be worried about the rapid rise of euthanasia, including in the United States?
 
Euthanasia has been in the news lately thanks to reports out of Canada, where last year, over 10,000 Canadians ended their lives via euthanasia. Those numbers are sure to go up, as Canada has loosened restrictions so that people can now choose euthanasia not only to avoid pain and suffering in the face of terminal disease, but simply for “mental health reasons.”
 
On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss these alarming trends and how to make the case that life is worth living.
 
A listener asks, why does it matter where we go to worship the Lord as long as we’re doing so?
 Links The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher • by Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa
 
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WOF 371: The Rise of Euthanasia

Friends, when universities turn to the secular narrative of the ego drama, which views education as directed to self-advancement alone, they suffer a loss of identity.
 
In her talk at the recent Good News Conference, Jessica Hooten Wilson offers a different vision of education that is based on an apprenticeship to tradition and is oriented toward a contemplative life for both educators and students.
 
Moving toward this vision creates a university system that orders its teachers and students to a good beyond themselves.
 Links Good News Conference The Power of the Cross: Good Friday Sermons from the Papal Preacher • by Cardinal Raniero Cantalamessa

WOF 372: Christianity and the Crisis of the Universities w/ Jessica Hooten Wilson

Friends, there are thousands of religions out there. So, why think Christianity is the right one? And why Catholic Christianity in particular?
 
On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss these challenges which have been raised during Bishop Barron’s Reddit #AMAs.
 
A listener asks, do you have any advice for a Muslim considering conversion to Catholicism?
 Links The Word on Fire Vatican II Collection: Decrees and Declarations

Why is Your Religion the Right One?

Friends, today we share Fr. Stephen Gadberry’s keynote talk from the recent Good News Conference in Orlando, Florida.
 
As Fr. Gadberry explains, every baptized Christian shares in Jesus’ offices of priest, prophet, and king. In this talk, Fr. Gadberry focuses on the priestly role and discusses the responsibility of every Christian to pray and work in union with Christ for the sanctification of the world.
 Links Good News Conference 
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WOF 374: The Baptismal Priesthood and Evangelization w/ Fr. Stephen Gadberry

Friends, we often find two groups in the Church in tension with each other: those concerned with the liturgy and those concerned with social justice.
 
On today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” Brandon Vogt and I discuss how to bridge this great divide, and why we should have enthusiasm for both the liturgy and the Church’s social doctrine.
 
A listener asks, can you repeat the argument for God that persuaded you as a high schooler?
 Links Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers • by Peter Kreeft
 
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WOF 375: The Liturgy and Social Justice

Friends, in today’s episode of “The Word on Fire Show,” we share Lecture 1 from Peter Kreeft’s new 12-part video series on “Socrates’ Children: The Great Debates of Philosophy.” In this lecture series, Dr. Peter Kreeft examines key ideas in philosophy by comparing and contrasting two representative philosophers in each lecture. The first lecture compares the father of philosophy, Socrates, with the Sophists, whose philosophy is marked more by cleverness and emotion rather than by wisdom and truth.
 
This video series is being released alongside Word on Fire’s new book series by Kreeft, titled Socrates’ Children: An Introduction to Philosophy from the 100 Greatest Philosophers. In this four-volume series, Kreeft examines with his characteristic wit and clarity, the big ideas of four major eras—ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary—and immerses the reader in the “great conversation” the ongoing dialogue among the great thinkers of history.
 Links Socrates’ Children books + video series 
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WOF 376: Peter Kreeft on Socrates vs. the Sophists

Despite the enduring, progressive narrative that society favors and privileges men, the sociological data reveals men have and continue to experience devastating declines in education, earning power, economic mobility, relationship stability, and physical and mental health. Often vilified by secular culture as “toxic” merely for existing, men are often far sicker, poorer, more addicted, more depressed, more incarcerated, and more likely to commit suicide than women.
 
 
 
However, more men than women now regularly go to church; numerous religious movements have been founded with the aim of helping men to overcome their spiritual, mental, and even physical weaknesses; and a new class of Christian men have been emerging on the political and cultural scene unapologetically calling for a return to traditional biblical values. How should we interpret this apparent masculinization of the faith and its effect on revitalizing the role of men in society? What insights does the Church offer, and what can we all learn from this to better evangelize both men and women? 
 
 
 
A listener asks why—procreation aside—God created a woman for Adam as opposed to another man.
 
 
 
00:00 | Intro
 01:49 | Bishop Barron back from Rome
 02:25 | Assessing grim statistics about men
 04:27 | Contributing cultural movements to masculine discouragement
 11:04 | Channeling masculine aggression
 14:47 | A complementary view of male and female
 17:52 | The return of men to the Church
 22:35 | Resources for recovering masculinity from its shadow side
 25:21 | Holy male exemplars
 27:15 | What the Church offers for masculine vision
 28:49 | Listener question
 30:53 | Join the Word on Fire Institute
 
 
 Links: 
 
 
 • Article on book about issues facing men: 
 https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/of-boys-and-men-by-richard-v-reeves-males-face-bigger-issues-than-toxic-masculinity/41990575.html E&C Online • article: 
 https://www.wordonfire.org/articles/richard-v-reeves-and-jocko-willink-take-on-male-malaise/ • NYT article: 
 https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/29/opinion/crisis-men-masculinity.html • Prison Stats: 
 https://www.bop.gov/about/statistics/statistics_inmate_gender.jsp • Word on Fire Institute: 
https://institute.wordonfire.org/ 
 
 
 
 
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WOF 467: The Fall—and Rise?—of Men

Part two of Bishop Barron’s talk on Catholicism and beauty from the 2018 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.

WOF 126: Catholicism and Beauty (Part 2 of 2)

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