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The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

WOF 067: Evangelizing with Goodness

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 5.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Truth, beauty, and goodness are the three transcendentals that draw people to belief in God. As important as rational arguments and beautiful artwork are for preserving and sharing the faith, Christian goodness has proven to be an explosively powerful means of evangelization over the centuries. In this episode of the Word on Fire Show, Bishop Barron discusses the history of Christian moral goodness and how this unique way of charity continues to bring people to Christ. Finally, a listener asks who inspires Bishop Barron.

Topics Discussed

  • 0:17 – Intro and Bishop meets William Friedkin
  • 3:33 - How is Christian moral goodness unique and attractive?
  • 6:57 - How did the early Christians evangelize through goodness?
  • 9:58 - Does our Christian goodness remain distinct amidst our modern culture?
  • 11:50 - What did the medieval Christian goodness look like?
  • 13:51 - How was Saint Francis one of the greatest evangelists of all time?
  • 16:04 - How did Saint Theresa of Calcutta become the most powerful evangelist of the twentieth century?
  • 17:54 - How did Saint Gregory the Wonderworker encourage evangelization?
  • 20:25 - As Christians, how do we remain charitable even when we don't feel motivated to be radically good?
  • 22:17 - How do we evangelize with goodness today?
  • 24:38 - Question from listener: Who inspires Bishop Barron?

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.

0:07.6

Another week we're happy to be with you.

0:09.4

I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director at Word on Fire and joining us is Bishop

0:14.0

Robert Barron, Bishop Barron.

0:15.6

It is delightful to talk with you.

0:17.8

Hey Brandon, always a joy.

0:19.7

How are you and the kids doing?

0:21.0

We're doing well, thanks for asking.

0:23.0

Hey, you recently had a really cool meeting with a man.

0:27.4

Many people might not know of by his name, but they certainly know his work.

0:31.1

His name is William Friedkin and tell us who he is and what the meeting was about.

0:36.3

Yeah, William Friedkin was the director of the French connection, one of the great movies

0:41.9

of the 70s.

0:42.9

He won the Oscar for that.

0:44.4

And then he's director of the exorcist, certainly one of the most remarkable movies of all

0:49.4

time.

0:50.4

And he's done a number of things over the years.

0:52.8

And I admired, as you know, I've written a lot about the exorcist film.

0:56.6

Well, out of the blue, he called me a couple of weeks ago and he's working on a project

1:01.4

kind of around this whole issue of exorcism.

1:04.6

And he had actually stumbled on, I think it was one of the YouTube videos that I had done

1:10.2

which he liked.

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