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Bishop Robert Barron
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529 EpisodesWOFS 536: Bishop Barron's New Book on Persecution Against Christians
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. Although not widely reported in legacy media outlets, Christiani
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 rejoiced at the news that Archbishop Fulto
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 about three-quarters of the Bible. It is th
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 for being friendly to Christianity in gen
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, seems to be making a comeback. Despite i
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 episodes, *Evangelization & Culture Podcast* ho
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, *Evangelization & Culture Podcast* host Tod
WOF 529: The Art & Means of Communication (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. Today, we're bringing you a special episode—a conversation from our
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 half of a conversation from last year's G
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 this critique, Newman offered an insightful
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 Catholic Ministries celebrated its twenty-fift
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 not having apodictic certainty. Bishop Bar
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 exclusively in the West, are challenging the very
WOF 523: The Grammar of Assent (10 of 12)
*An* *Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent* was Newman's most difficult work. While not a formal epistemology (theory of knowledge), Newman prompted a movement away from modern epistemology, stressing certainty that is best found in logic an
WOF 522: What's It Like to Be a Catholic Bishop?
St. Pope John Paul the II memorably observed that the Catholic Church comes from the eucharist and that the eucharist, in turn, comes from priests. As Bishop Barron noted in a recent letter to his diocese, "by an inescapable logic [therefor
WOF 521: The Philosophical Habit (9 of 12)
Newman believed that a liberal arts education would instill a philosophical habit of mind in students, helping students reason to the foundational principles of every discipline and see how everything fits together. The philosophical habit
WOF 520: Defending Religious Freedom
Religious freedom, especially for Christians, is under attack across the globe, including in the West–including right here in the United States. Whether insidiously in the form of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs that block Christi
WOF 519: The Queen of the Sciences (8 of 12)
Theology is the queen of the sciences. It is not just one science among many but the principal organizing science. If it is taken out of this central organizing place, something else will take its place. In this lesson, Bishop Barron helps
WOF 518: What Is the Christian Way of Caring for the Poor?
Poverty is not only a complex problem to address economically–not to mention sociologically, psychologically, and culturally; it is also often caught up in political and ideological currents, both domestically and internationally, that run
WOF 517: The Idea of a University (7 of 12)
Newman's articulation of the nature of university education in his *The Idea of a University *is crucial today in that a polytechnic model has replaced classical liberal education and theology has been exiled from most institutions.