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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

Today, we share a sample lesson from a course inside our Word on Fire Institute on “Reaching the Different.” The course is taught by Dr. Matt Nelson and teaches how to evangelize friends and family who are apathetic about God and don't care about religion. To get the rest of the course, along with 10 other full courses and all sorts of bonuses, join the Institute at https://wordonfire.institute.

WOF 215: When People Are Indifferent About God

The hit movie 1917 vividly depicts the horrors of World War I, including its great spiritual peril. In this episode, Bishop Barron reflects on the Great War, discussing its impact on twentieth-century theology and philosophy, the Pope, and the Catholic Church’s relationship to the world.
 
A listener asks why Jesus chose to live a quiet, mostly obscure life.
 
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WOF 216: “1917,” War, and Faith

In today’s episode, Bishop Barron fields questions from people all over the world, including:
 
 • How do I evangelize in remote areas where people are simple, and can’t even read the Bible, without dumbing down the message?
 • What’s the Catholic response to worry and anxiety?
 • Was Purgatory divinely revealed or just a human invention?
 • How to evangelize young people about hot-button issues without sounding preachy and condemnatory?
 • When praying, should we always go to God with requests or can we sometimes just praise him?
 • How can God be outside the universe but still have an effect on it?
 • Can you talk about Rabbi Wolpe’s argument against the Trinity, that if God is perfect, how could there be three persons in the Trinity?
 
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WOF 217: International Q&A w/ Bishop Barron

How did Bishop Barron get drawn into the life of the mind? What are his reading and writing habits like? In this episode, he discusses the intellectual life and gives advice to aspiring intellectuals.
 
A listener asks which literature books Bishop would recommend for a Catholic high school English class.
 
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WOF 218: The Intellectual Life

Stoicism is experiencing a cultural moment, especially among Millennial techies. What is this ancient school of philosophy? Why is it experiencing a revival? And how does it compare to Christianity? Bishop Barron discusses all that and more in today's episode of the "Word on Fire Show."
 
A listener asks if the word “holy” means set apart for a particular purpose, what exactly does it mean when we say God himself is holy?
 
Links/Books
 
 The Obstacle is the Way • by Ryan Holiday
 Ego is the Enemy • by Ryan Holiday
 The Porch and the Cross • by Dr. Kevin Vost
 
 
 
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WOF 219: Stoicism and Christianity

The fathers of the Second Vatican Council referred to the Eucharist as the source and summit of the Christian life, that from which authentic Christianity flows and that toward which it tends. Yet a recent Pew Forum study found that only 30% of church-going Catholics believe what the Church teaches about the Eucharist, that under the forms of bread and wine, Christ is really present in the sacrament.
 
That alarming statistic is why Bishop Barron devoted an hour-long keynote address to the topic at the 2020 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress. Today we share the first half of his talk, which looks at the Biblical and patristic basis for the doctrine of the Real Presence, and next week we'll share the second half. Enjoy!
 
 
 
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WOF 223: The Eucharist in the Early Church (Part 1 of 2)

As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, Catholic dioceses throughout the United States have now suspended public Masses.
 
We know this is heartbreaking. The Catechism affirms that "the Sunday celebration of the Lord’s Day and his Eucharist is at the heart of the Church’s life"—making this a particularly difficult day in an already difficult time.
 
For this reason, we would like to invite you to join Bishop Barron online for Mass each day at 8:15am ET from his chapel in Santa Barbara:
 
https://wordonfireshow.com/mass
 
Whether you live alone or with family, you will still be gathering with Catholics around the world to worship God, keep his day holy, and receive the grace of an act of spiritual communion (a prayer for this will be provided on screen).
 
We will continue to offer these daily online Masses for the foreseeable future, so please join us each day, or as often as you can.
 
And please continue to pray for all those impacted by the coronavirus.
 
God bless you all!

UPDATE: Join Bishop Barron for Mass Each Day

Gnosticism was one of the earliest heresies of the Church, and it remains among the most enduring. With an emphasis on special knowledge acquired only by a small group of enlightened elites, as well as a sharp division between spirit and matter, with spiritual things being good and material things being evil, Gnosticism still thrives today everywhere from crack conspiracy theories to Hollywood movies to our culture of self-invention. Bishop Barron discusses Gnosticism and why it ultimately fails to satisfy.
 

 
A listener asks Bishop to help her understand the resurrection of the body.
 

 
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WOF 222: Gnosticism, the Enduring Heresy

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

We bring you the fourth lesson of Bishop Barron’s lecture series on one of the most important and influential Catholic theologians of the twentieth century, Han Urs von Balthasar. We will come to understand his life, his theology, and his ongoing impact on the Church and our work to evangelize the culture. Enjoy!
 Links: • Full lecture series available at the Word on Fire Institute: 
https://institute.wordonfire.org/ • Podcast: 
WOF 149: Who Was Hans Urs von Balthasar? • Article: “
Just a Little Stone in God’s Mosaic • ”
 • More Resources: 
https://www.wordonfire.org/topics/hans-urs-von-balthasar/ 
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WOF 468: Bishop Barron on the Theology of Balthasar (4 of 12)

In last week's episode, we shared the first half of Bishop Barron's talk on “The Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.” It focused on the Biblical and patristic basis for the doctrine. This week, we hear the second half of his talk which looks at the Eucharistic theology of Thomas Aquinas, the Council of Trent, and a letter on the Eucharist from Pope Paul VI. Enjoy!
 

 
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WOF 224: Thomas Aquinas on the Real Presence (Part 2 of 2)

WOF 224: Thomas Aquinas on the Real Presence (Part 2 of 2)

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