WOF 088: Listener Q&A with Bishop Barron

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 14 August 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Normally, in each episode we take one listener question. But we've received such a large number of outstanding questions from around the globe that we’ve decided to devote another episode to answering a range of questions from listeners like you. Bishop Barron answers several questions, rapid fire, on many different topics.

Topics Discussed

0:05 - Intro: Bishop Barron returns from his CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players film trip
2:00 - Should we feel guilty for not giving away all of our possessions and serving the poorest of the poor?
5:10 - If there are aliens, did Jesus appear to them as well?
7:45 - What is the difference between the Ascension and the Assumption?
9:45 - Why do we take both the Bread and the Wine in Communion?
13:20 - When does venting turn into gossip, and how do we avoid gossiping?
18:45 - Where is Jesus' body today?
24:25 - What might Jesus say about dealing with a bad breakup?
26:45 - What resources should Catholics read to understand Martin Luther?

Bonus Resources

Study Guides
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players - Leader's Guide (Bishop Barron)
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players - Study Guide (Bishop Barron)
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players - Leaders Kit (Bishop Barron)

DVDs
- CATHOLICISM: The Pivotal Players (Bishop Barron)

Books
- Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith by Bishop Barron
- Seeds of the Word: Finding God in the Culture by Bishop Barron
- Vibrant Paradoxes: The Both/And of Catholicism by Bishop Barron
- Praying with the Pivotal Players by Bishop Barron
- Thomas Aquinas: Spiritual Master by Bishop Barron

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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. We're excited to be here with you. I'm Brandon Vott,
0:09.0	the host and the content director at Word on Fire. And with us, once again, back from his
0:15.0	amazing trip to France and Italy for the filming of Pivotal Players is Bishop Robert Barron,
0:19.9	Bishop Barron. We're glad you made it safely back. Welcome.
0:22.9	And me too. Always great to talk to you.
0:25.6	Hey, do you feel like you're finally rested after that massive cross-Atlantic flight?
0:31.2	Just about, it takes me about five days when I come home. And like just last night, I'm almost there.
0:35.7	I went to sleep at about 11. We'll come at about 5.30. So I'm like an hour off my usual thing.
0:42.1	But I'm getting there. It takes me about five days to recover.
0:44.9	What do you, I think it was like an 11 hour flight, something like that, right? From Paris to LA.
0:49.6	What do you do on a flight that long?
0:52.0	Well, the one going home I never sleep because that would throw you off even more.
0:55.1	So I watch TV things or movies. I had my new Donna Tarte novel. She's someone I've just
1:01.7	discovered. This great novelist who happens to be Catholic, by the way. And I finished her novel
1:08.0	the secret history. And I was picking up then the goldfinch, this second one.
1:12.2	Anyway, so I spent a lot of time reading her.
1:14.9	Good. Well, today we're going to do something we try to do every couple months. And that's do a
1:19.2	listener Q&A episode. So this is where we take questions from many of you. Our friends and
1:24.3	followers who are listening to the show. If you have a question, of course, you can always send it
1:28.4	into us by visiting askbishopbaron.com. That's askbishopbaron.com. And you can record the audio of your
1:35.4	question on any device. We've gotten a lot of good questions over the past several months. And we
1:40.7	typically just take one per episode. But every now and then we like to pack a bunch of them into
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