WOF 100: Listener Q&A with Bishop Barron

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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4.9 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2017

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Today we celebrate the hundredth episode of “The Word on Fire Show”! It's hard to believe we've reach that mark. But to celebrate, we decided to focus on you, our listeners, and your wonderful questions. Bishop Barron answers several listener questions about a whole range of topics.

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Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction
2:30 - What are Bishop Barron's thoughts on Stoicism?
5:15 - What if "willing the good" of one person causes problems for another?
8:30 - Why are angels commonly depicted as children in artwork?
10:45 - What are the first steps for someone who is considering becoming Catholic?
13:10 - Was Jesus made in the image of God or is Jesus God?
16:50 - Does Jesus want us to follow all of the laws of the Old Testament?
21:30 - Why did God create the world?
23:30 - Does Bishop Barron plan on starting a Catholic movement?

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the host and the content director.
0:09.2	And I'm here in New York with the esteemed Bishop Robert Barron, Bishop Barron Episode 100.
0:15.4	Good to be with you here.
0:16.6	Yeah, hey Brandon. It is hard to believe. 100.
0:20.4	I think we recorded the very first episode the day after you were ordained to Bishop.
0:25.6	Is that right? Yeah, kind of. I think wasn't like down in LA.
0:29.5	Right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:30.9	Just trying to make sense of all of that stuff.
0:33.2	Exactly.
0:33.9	And we started the podcast.
0:35.1	So the podcast is as old as your Episcopal.
0:37.8	Yeah, I don't know what that says.
0:39.8	But it's great. I'm delighted.
0:42.1	I looked at the numbers yesterday.
0:43.9	So 100 episodes, this is number 100.
0:46.6	2.8 million downloads.
0:49.1	Terrific.
0:49.8	Do the math. That's 28,000 downloads per show.
0:53.2	So I've been telling people, you know,
0:55.2	this is equivalent to you traveling the country doing Billy Graham style
1:00.0	crusades every single week.
1:01.8	You know, it's like filling out a whole arena doing one of these things.
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