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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 064: LIVE from the L.A. Congress!

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 52 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

The Religious Education Congress, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Office of Religious Education, is America's largest annual gathering of Roman Catholics, bringing together nearly 40,000 every year for a four-day event! 2017 marked the 20th year that Bishop Robert Barron has been in attendance. In addition to several interviews and book-signings Bishop Barron participated in at this year's Congress, he also gave a keynote in the central arena. This episode of The Word on Fire Show was recorded live at the Word on Fire booth in the exposition hall. During the show the good bishop answers questions from the expo audience as well as the audience watching live on Facebook.

Topics Discussed

  • 0:10  - Introduction, Bishop Barron's 20th year at the Congress and his talk on the "nones"
  • 4:00 - What would Bishop Barron ask Thomas Aquinas if he was able to meet him?
  • 6:58 - How do you see Hispanic Catholics evangelizing to future generations?
  • 9:20 - Catholic Stuff You Should Know priests discuss podcasting for evangelization
  • 13:45 - What are some good takeaways from the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar?
  • 15:20 - What is Bishop Barron's vision for evangelization and catechesis?
  • 21:30 - What's the next filming project for Word On Fire?
  • 23:30 - How should we deal with sin without beating ourselves up when we fail?
  • 28:00 - What is the difference between meditative prayer and contemplative prayer?
  • 32:10 - How can God be three persons and not fall into any genus, the genus of personhood?
  • 35:45 - How can teachers help combat the myth that science refutes religion?
  • 42:30 - How do we reconcile the book of Genesis with scientific facts about creation?
  • 47:35 - What is the best way to bring an inactive Catholic back to the faith?
  • 49:30 - What is one bit of advice for all of us facing the crisis of attrition within the Catholic Church?

Bonus Resources

Find bonus links and resources for this episode at http://WordOnFireShow.com and, again, 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 Votte, the host and the content director

0:08.9

and joining me here live at the Los Angeles Religious Education Congress is the great Bishop

0:14.9

Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, good to be here with you.

0:17.4

Brandon has always joined me with you and especially here at the famous LA Congress.

0:21.5

Now you're right, it's famous and you've been coming here for many years. Tell us a little

0:25.6

bit about your history with the Congress.

0:27.5

It's funny on the way down here yesterday I drove in from Santa Barbara and it occurred

0:31.5

to me that this is the 20th anniversary of my arrival here. I came for the first time

0:36.9

in 1997. I'll tell you exactly why I came. I just finished a book on Thomas Aquinas

0:43.4

for Crossroad and the publisher at the time was a guy named Mike Leach who loved the LA

0:48.0

Congress. He said, all right, now to publicize this book you've got to go to the LA Religious

0:52.8

Education Congress and I said, what's the LA Religious Education? I didn't know what it

0:57.7

was. He said, if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere. It's like the biggest

1:03.1

event in Catholicism. So I signed up, you know. I remember I left Chicago and of course

1:09.2

there was a blizzard, you know, February in Chicago. So I was delayed. I couldn't land

1:14.4

in the John Wayne Airport, which is the one here in Orange County. They diverted me to

1:18.3

LAX. I got off the plane. I didn't know where I was really. I made me a bend to LA once

1:22.9

before then and made my way down here. The plane was delayed. I got in like a midnight

1:29.1

or one o'clock, got to the hotel and they didn't have my reservation. So it was like one

1:33.3

of those horrific trips. But then the next morning I'm tired, I'm jet lagged, I'm disoriented

1:39.1

but I made my way down here where we are right now to the convention center and I just immediately

1:45.3

caught the buzz of this place and the excitement of it. And I sort of hooked from that moment on.

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