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 and 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, if

there's one absolute in our secular culture today, I would say it's non-judgmentalism.

Right? What do you hear everywhere today? Look everyone's got a right to

his or her own opinion. His or her own lifestyle, sexual orientation, now even

gender. To critique someone else is simply an arrogant imposition of one's own

perspective on somebody else. Moreover, it gives rise to terrible feelings of

inadequacy and self-approach, culminating in self-harming and even suicide.

And therefore, we tolerate everybody and we indeed celebrate our diversity. Right?

That should sound pretty familiar. I'm just rehearsing things you hear all the

time in the secular press on television in almost any movie you watch. You know,

we just don't judge people. Everyone's got a right to determine what their

life's all about. Furthermore, some people seeking to defend this point of

view from a biblical perspective will point to Jesus' famous rejoinder.

Judge not and you will not be judged. Right? I mean, Jesus himself says that. So

why do we keep judging people? They also will point to Jesus' great practice of

open-table fellowship. He had this radically inclusive way of being. He was

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