WOF 027: Popes, Saints, and the Economy
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.8K Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2016
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
What is Catholic social teaching and what does it have to say about the economy, business, and our everyday work lives? That's what Bishop Barron explains in this episode. Surveying the insights of popes and saints, he shows why the Catholic Church rejects socialism and embraces a nuanced, careful endorsement of the market economy.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. |
| 0:04.7 | I'm Brandon Vot, the content director at Word on Fire. |
| 0:07.8 | Unfortunately, Bishop Router Baron is not with me today, |
| 0:11.0 | as he usually is, because he's taking some well-deserved rest. |
| 0:15.5 | Bishop Baron just wrapped up a few weeks of grueling travel |
| 0:19.0 | and a schedule of events jam-packed with things almost every day. |
| 0:23.0 | And so he's taking a little bit of a break. |
| 0:25.0 | He'll be back with us next week for a new episode |
| 0:27.8 | of The Word on Fire Show. |
| 0:29.4 | But we didn't want to leave you hanging. |
| 0:30.9 | So today, we decided to share with you a talk |
| 0:33.9 | that Bishop Baron recently gave on capitalism |
| 0:37.4 | and Catholic social teaching. |
| 0:39.8 | He gave the talk at the 2016 conference on Business and Ethics, |
| 0:44.4 | which was hosted by the Orange Catholic Foundation |
| 0:47.5 | out in Orange County, California. |
| 0:49.8 | The talk offers a fairly brief survey |
| 0:52.6 | of Catholic social teaching, including some of its |
| 0:55.4 | major documents and teachers. |
| 0:57.8 | And it also bears on many economic questions people |
| 1:01.2 | are wondering about today, such as, |
| 1:03.3 | what is the church teach about capitalism or socialism? |
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