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WOF 543: Christian Charity vs. "Suicidal Empathy"
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. The evolutionary behavio
WOF 542: Why All Catholics Should Pray the Liturgy of the Hours
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. The Liturgy of the Hours
WOF 541: "Heaven in Stone and Glass"—A New Feature Film by Bishop Barron
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WOF 540: How the Virtues Help Us Respond to an Increasingly Vicious Online Culture
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. From Bishop Barron's ver
WOF 539: Celebrating America's 250th Birthday
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WOF 538: Bishop Barron's Work on the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. Bishop Robert Barron has
WOF 537: How to Keep the Momentum in the Surge of New Conversions
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. A wave of fresh converts
WOF 536: Bishop Barron's New Book on Persecution Against Christians
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WOF 535: Bishop Barron on Bishop Fulton Sheen
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. The faithful recently re
WOF 534: The Evangelical Power of the Old Testament
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show.* Thank you for joining us. The Old Testament is abo
WOF 533: Hollywood & Catholic Priests
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. Hollywood is not known f
WOF 532: The Suffocating "Warmth" of Marxist Collectivism
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. Marxism, unfortunately,
WOF 531: Social Media in Light & Darkness (pt. 3)
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. For the last two episode
WOF 530: Catholic Ministry & Social Media (pt. 2)
Welcome back to the *Word on Fire Show*. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the *Word on Fire Show*. Thank you for joining us. In our last episode, *Ev
WOF 529: The Art & Means of Communication (pt. 1)
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WOF 528: The Early Days w/ Bishop Barron & Fr. Steve (pt. 2)
Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire Show. Thank you for joining us. As we continue this second h
WOF 527: Reason and Authority (12 of 12)
The Enlightenment believed reason was its own authority. Heteronomous authority was anathema. Autonomy was the ideal. Thus, the Church's hierarchical structure was viewed as enslaving. In light of thi
WOF 526: The Early Days w/ Bishop Barron & Fr. Steve (pt. 1)
Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire Show. Thank you for joining us. In 2025, Word on Fire Cathol
WOF 525: The Illative Sense (11 of 12)
Since the mind can infer truths of which it does not have certainty, what judges the validity of an inference in concrete matters? The Illative Sense. It is the power of judging and concluding when no
WOF 524: The Dangers of Life Becoming Too Easy
In a recent episode of the Joe Rogan show, evolutionary biologist and public intellectual Bret Weinstein observed that two emerging features of contemporary societies, especially, though not exclusive