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.

Please be with you. Friends, probably most you know that I spend a lot of time

trying to reach out to young people who have disaffiliated from the church. So I've

been studying this issue for a long time and in study after study, survey after

survey. Very often the number one reason young people say they disaffiliate from

religion is that religion is in conflict with science and in that conflict

science wins. They have great reverence for science, religions out of step

with it. Therefore religion has to go. The warfare between religion and science

is kind of assumed by a lot of young people who disaffiliate today and just

think of the rhetoric you know that you'll pick up all over the culture. People

just say Galileo and right away you think oh there's obscurrentist oppressive

religion standing in the way of the advance of the sciences or for the other side

they'll say look you know 90% of scientists claim to be non-believers etc. Well

first of all though this is sermon for another day. May I say this idea of the

war between religion and science is relatively recent. That's more of a 19th

century phenomenon for the first role roughly three centuries of the natural

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