Friends, welcome to Word on Fire Catholic Ministries. Word on Fire is an

apostolate dedicated to the mission of evangelization using media both old and

new to share the faith on every continent and to facilitate an encounter with

Christ and His Church. The efforts of Word on Fire engage the culture and bring

the transformative power of God's Word where it is most needed. Today we invite

you to join Bishop Robert Barron as he preaches the gospel and shares the

warmth and light of Christ with each one of us.

Peace be with you. Friends, I love the opportunity today to talk about the

Church's social teaching and the prompt comes from readings one and two because

they beautifully show if you want both sides of the Church's social teaching,

the beautiful balance that we can find in this regard. Let me start with someone I

I've mentioned a lot to you before because I do think even more than Karl Marx

he's the most influential philosopher of the 19th century. I'm talking about

Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche said that we're kind of beyond good and evil

there are no objective moral values. So what's left he thought was the uba men

she called them the Superman who with his great will to power asserts his

prerogatives and his authority. So Nietzsche was obsessed with the idea of power

who exercises power the right of the strong man to kind of assert himself.

Well, Nietzsche's influence is everywhere in the 20th century. You see it in

someone like Heidegger. You see it clearly in C.G. Jung. You see it in the

novel of Iron Rand for example. You see it in Jean Paul South. But I think most

clearly you see it in the reflections of Michel Foucault. He was a French

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