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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 002: What is the Gospel?

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.95.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2015

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Bishop Barron reflects on the basic message of Christianity. Is it just about justification or how we are saved? Or is there much more to it than that?

Listen to more episodes at WordOnFireShow.com and submit your questions at AskBishopBarron.com.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the second episode of the Word on Fire Show.

0:06.1

I'm Brandon Vot, the content director at Word on Fire.

0:08.8

And once again, I'm joined by Bishop Robert Barron,

0:12.0

Bishop Barron.

0:12.6

Welcome to the show.

0:13.6

Brandon, always great to be with you.

0:15.6

We had our first test episode.

0:18.0

Not too long ago, we covered Pope Francis

0:20.4

and looked at the four key figures in his speech to Congress.

0:24.8

Today, we're going to be looking at something

0:26.3

a little more fundamental.

0:28.4

I'd like to talk about something that Catholic theologians

0:31.9

call the Carigma, the Colonel, the Gospel.

0:35.7

In Pope Francis' encyclical, Evangelium, Gaudium,

0:40.4

he talks about the need to recover the Carigma.

0:43.8

He said, we've missed this a lot.

0:45.5

We focus a lot on the secondary issues.

0:47.9

We really need to get back to the basic core of the Gospel.

0:52.5

So Bishop Barron, I figure who better to proclaim

0:56.1

the core of the Gospel than you?

0:57.7

And especially in a world that so often misses

1:01.4

what Christian is all about.

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