WOF 092: Pro-Life AND Social Justice

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 11 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

There seems to be a divide in the Catholic Church between so-called “pro-life” Catholic and so-called “social justice” Catholics. Where did this come from? How do we heal this split? That's what Bishop Barron discusses in this episode. A listener asks how to respond when a beggar asks for money on the street.

Topics Discussed

0:05 - Intro: Ingrid Goes West and Facebook announcement
3:45 - How did the Pro-Life movement and the Social Justice movement become divided?
5:55 - How should the "both/and" quality of Catholicism address this great separation?
7:00 - What does "social justice" mean in the Catholic tradition?
9:15 - Should the Pro-Life and Social Justice movements be equally emphasized in the life of the Church?
13:20 - How do we heal the divide between these two groups of Catholics?
14:55 - How can the saints help provide a path forward?
17:00 - How does Pope Francis balance the priority of these two issues?
19:32 - Question from listener: How should Catholics react to beggars on the street?

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm the host, Brandon Vott. I'm the content director
0:09.2	at Word on Fire. Joining us is the magnanimous Bishop of Los Angeles, Bishop Robert Barron.
0:16.1	Bishop Barron, welcome.
0:17.6	Brandon, good morning. Always great to be with you.
0:21.0	You get to see a lot of movies. You've commented on tons of them over the years, but you recently
0:25.4	saw one that you've been very, very high on. You've been very positive about it. Tell us
0:30.0	about that.
0:31.0	Oh, yeah. Ingrid goes west. I think I saw a coming attraction for several weeks ago. I
0:35.5	knew nothing about it. It looked kind of quirky and funny. So I wouldn't see it. And it's
0:39.5	actually a very searching movie, I think, about our contemporary culture and the obsession
0:45.0	with the iPhone and how that's distorted a lot of our lifestyles, our relationships.
0:52.8	It's a funny movie. It's kind of a dark comedy, but it's a very incisive commentary, I think,
0:58.6	on the way we've created false selves really around the iPhone and how it precludes the
1:06.5	possibility often of a real encounter of the person right in front of you, the living,
1:13.1	breathing person in front of you. And so I thought it was helpful for especially a lot
1:18.9	of people in this so-called eye gen, people who have come of age in the last 15 years or
1:23.8	so, who've never known a world without the smartphone. People that, in many cases, are
1:31.8	literally sleeping with their iPhones. I mean, the kids and the young people that will
1:36.4	fall asleep with the iPhone, next to them, that the last thing they do before they go to
1:40.8	sleep is look at the first thing in the morning, they look at the smartphone. That's doing
1:45.1	something to us, which is not altogether good. And Ingrid goes west is about that.
1:49.2	Well, just to affirm that we were not totally at the technology, we got some exciting news,
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