WOF 127: Bishop Barron on “Avengers: Infinity War”

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🗓️ 14 May 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

The new film Avengers: Infinity War, based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, has already grossed over $1 billion worldwide and had the highest-grossing opening in film history. In this episode, Bishop Barron and Jared Zimmerer explore some of the movie's philosophical and spiritual themes.

*SPOILER ALERT!* This episode contains spoilers so only listen after you've seen the film, or if you don't plan to see it.

Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, confirmation season
4:30 - What does Bishop Barron think of comic book movies and the villain, Thanos?
6:17 - How does Thanos mirror Nietzsche and alchemy?
9:45 - How does Thanos reflect the totalitarian regimes of the World War II?
13:05 - How does the Church stand against the idea that "the end justifies the means"?
15:45 - What are the shortcomings of the Marvel heroes, and how do they reflect the Greek gods?
21:50 - How did Bishop Barron react to the surprise ending?
25:00 - Who is Bishop Barron's favorite super hero?
26:00 - Question - By what criteria to you criticize movies?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm your host, Jared Zimmerer, the director of Outreach
0:09.0	and Mission here at Word on Fire. And as always, a warm welcome to Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop,
0:14.3	it's always good to be with you. Hey, Jared. Good to hear your voice. How the kids doing?
0:18.0	Doing well. Doing well. As always, growing fast and a little anesthesia. She's what? Seven months
0:24.3	old now. She sure is. She sure is. Living up to the her name as well. A little princess. So I know
0:31.6	that right now you're really in the throes of confirmation season in your region. How's everything
0:37.1	going? And what's really been sort of the main message you've been giving to the confirmandi?
0:41.3	Yeah, you know, I kind of like confirmation season. We do it Los Angeles all at one time. So the
0:47.7	two months after Easter, basically, we do all our confirmations. And I kind of like it that way,
0:52.4	you know, because Easter season is the natural time leading up to Pentecost. So I've done, I think
0:57.3	about 19 confirmations so far. I've got, I think, 15 or so to go. So it's kind of intense. You
1:03.3	know, you might do, I had two yesterday, for example, the weekend I had four in total. But they're
1:10.2	good. They're good. And it's great seeing these kids and their families. My message this year,
1:16.8	I've talked a lot about branding. And what I mean is literal branding because
1:21.9	confirmation is a character sacrament. And our word character comes from the Latin and the
1:28.3	Greek caractere, which means a brand. So when you would brand an animal, or I use the example of
1:34.8	the Roman army when someone joined the army, they were branded as belonging to the army and to the
1:40.6	empire. And so I say to these kids, this sacrament is a branding sacrament. It marks you as belonging
1:48.9	to Jesus, you know. And I've said to them, maybe some of you have tattoos and a tattoo brands you
1:54.9	pretty well, but just in the level of the skin. And for this life, but the brand I'm talking about
2:00.5	is forever. And it brands you at the deepest level of your soul. So that's been kind of my motif.
2:07.1	They don't belong to themselves. They belong to Christ and to his church. I think the branding
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