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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 026: Fulton Sheen, Apostle of the New Media

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2016

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Venerable Fulton Sheen is remembered as one of the greatest Catholic evangelists of the twentieth century. A master of both television and radio, he shared the Gospel with millions using his unique blend of wit, humor, and insight. Bishop Barron reflects on Sheen's legacy and the lessons he offers us. A deacon listener asks how Bishop Barron prepares his own homilies each week.

Topics Discussed

  • 0:56  - Bishop Barron's summary of the New Evangelization Conference in Latrobe, PA
  • 1:45 - Who was Archbishop Fulton Sheen?
  • 4:54 -  One thing we must do before we evangelize
  • 6:42 - The significance of a Catholic priest on primetime, network TV
  • 8:47 -  How Sheen reached 30 million viewers through his TV show
  • 11:02 - Sheen's strategy for evangelizing a broad audience
  • 13:05 - Would Fulton Sheen be on Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram?
  • 14:32 - The importance of Sheen's book, The Mystical Body of Christ
  • 17:29 - The common thread connecting Ronald Knox, G.K. Chesterton, and Fulton Sheen
  • 18:26 - How Sheen's "Holy Hour" grounded all his writing and preaching
  • 20:40 - Sheen's commitment to do a "Holy Hour" every day during his priesthood
  • 22:42 - Bishop Barron's experience giving the "Tre Ore" talks at St. Patrick's Cathedral
  • 24:38 - Question from listener: How does Bishop Barron prepare his homilies?

Bonus Resources

 

Find bonus links and resources for this episode at http://WordOnFireShow.com and be sure to submit your questions at http://AskBishopBarron

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the content director at Word

0:07.5

on Fire, and joining me, as always, is Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron. It is always

0:13.0

great to have you. Brandon, great to be on with you as always.

0:16.8

Hey, listen, a couple of exciting bits of news. One of them is that the Word on Fire

0:21.2

Show is now being aired on the EWTN Radio Network. This is great, so you can still listen

0:27.8

to the show as a podcast and download it. We recommend that. But now you can also hear

0:31.9

the show on radio across the country through EWTN's radio network. It's airing every

0:37.4

Wednesday at 10.30 a.m. So thanks so much to our friends at EWTN for picking it up. And

0:43.2

we encourage you to spread the word for this show so you can listen to it wherever you

0:46.8

are all around the country. Bishop, you just returned from an exciting event in Lattrobe,

0:53.2

Pennsylvania. Tell us a little bit about that.

0:55.7

Yeah, it was a conference put on by the wonderful St. Vincent's Arch Abbey, which is the

1:00.2

largest Benedictine community now anywhere in the world. I think it's fascinating. It's

1:04.6

the first one founded by the way in our country, back in the mid-19th century. Anyway, they

1:09.3

sponsored this symposium, Cardinal World of Washington, was very much behind it, and

1:14.8

he asked me specifically to come. It was largely addressed to campus ministers. It was on

1:20.6

evangelization and higher education. So I gave a presentation and Cardinal World did

1:25.9

and sort of Carolyn Wu, who's the head of Catholic Relief Services. And then we had a

1:30.8

lot of time in between to talk and have Q&A and round tables. So I found it very edifying

1:37.3

to be with these campus ministers who are among, I think, the most effective evangelizers

1:43.0

in the church today. Now, those two bits of news are kind of a good segue into our topic.

1:48.5

Both radio and evangelization because those are the two things you think of when you think

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