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Back to SearchWOF 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. Th…
17 hours ago
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. Th…
2 weeks ago
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. Th…
1 month ago
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. Tha…
1 month, 1 week ago
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 hierarchic…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
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. Th…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
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 Sen…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
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 cont…
2 months ago
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 m…
2 months, 1 week ago
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.…
2 months, 2 weeks ago