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Back to SearchWOF 187: The Ad Extra Strategy
Why does Bishop Barron focus heavily on ad extra evangelization, the type of ministry aimed at the peripheries of the culture? That's the focus of th…
6 years, 8 months ago
WOF 186: Bishops and "Nones"
Bishop Barron spoke to all the U.S. bishops about the "nones" during their recent USCCB gathering. In this episode, we walk through Bishop Barron's t…
6 years, 8 months ago
WOF 185: Myths of the Catholic Church
As the Word on Fire Institute launches a new course by Dr. Christopher Kaczor on "Myths of the Catholic Church," Bishop Barron and host Jared Zimmere…
6 years, 8 months ago
WOF 184: Re-Judaizing Catholicism
In his recent interview with Ben Shapiro, Bishop Barron said that he wants to "re-Judaize Catholicism," to read Christ, the Bible, and the Christian …
6 years, 9 months ago
WOF 183: Non-Catholic Q&A w/ Bishop Barron
Non-Catholic listeners send in their questions for Bishop Barron. Questions include:
As a Christian, do you ever think, "What if God doesn't exis…
6 years, 9 months ago
WOF 182: What was the Enlightenment?
Several recent bestselling books have focused on the Enlightenment, including Stephen Pinker's Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Hum…
6 years, 9 months ago
WOF 181: J.R.R. Tolkien, Master Evangelist
The great novelist, J.R.R. Tolkien, has enchanted generations of readers with his Hobbitand Lord of the Rings, and is the subject of a new feature fi…
6 years, 9 months ago
WOF 180: Priests, Confessions, and Prison
A recent bill proposed in the California Senate will force priests to report any crimes of sexual abuse they hear about in the confessional, breakin…
6 years, 9 months ago
WOF 179: Bishop Barron's New Book on the Sexual Abuse Crisis
Today we discuss Bishop Barron's new book, titled Letter to a Suffering Church: A Bishop Speaks on the Sexual Abuse Crisis.
In light of this curre…
6 years, 10 months ago
WOF 178: Can Doctrine Really Develop? (Part 2 of 2)
In today's episode, we share the second half of a talk Bishop Barron gave on John Henry Newman's famous book, An Essay on the Development of Doctrin…
6 years, 10 months ago