WOF 132: Why Does God Allow Evil and Suffering?

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 18 June 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Nearly every day we hear about natural disasters, school shootings, and profound tragedies. Each of us experiences pain and suffering. So why does God allow it? Why doesn't he just prevent all evil from occurring? That's what Bishop Barron discusses in today's episode. A listener asks

Topics Discussed

o:04 - Introduction, Bishop Barron talks about his The Mass Study Program
3:14 - How did St. Augustine wrestle with the problem of evil?
10:00 - How did Thomas Aquinas deal with the problem of evil philosophically and theologically?
17:00 - How could God under any circumstances permit the Holocaust?
20:00 - How did God deal with the problem of evil on the Cross?
23:00 - How would Bishop Barron explain evil to a grieving sufferer?
24:50 - Question: Why did God not make us more capable of understanding him?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vap, the host and the content director
0:09.3	here at Word on Fire. Joining us from sunny Santa Barbara, California is Bishop Robert
0:14.8	Barron. Bishop Barron always a delight to talk with you.
0:18.2	Hey Brandon, always a joy even though you're always across the country, sounds like you're
0:21.8	right next door.
0:22.8	Amazing, isn't it?
0:23.8	Yeah.
0:24.8	Hey, Gilbert John.
0:25.8	He's doing great. I'll always try to think of something witty to say whenever you
0:29.6	ask me that, but nothing else.
0:32.0	He did look remarkably chester Tony.
0:33.8	He does. He's got a deep double or triple chin going on.
0:37.8	Yeah, he really did.
0:39.6	Well, listen, just a few days ago, we were excited to roll out to the entire world your
0:45.2	new film series titled The Mass. Tell us a little bit about that. Why a series on The
0:50.6	Mass?
0:51.6	Yeah, I'm really excited about it. It looks beautiful. I saw some of the advance, you
0:55.4	know, screening of it. We filmed it last, I think October in Santa Barbara here.
0:59.6	And it's six talks, each one about 20 minutes or so.
1:04.0	And I just, I walk through the mass to try to explain it because he, Brandon, I'm convinced
1:08.5	that the Vatican II idea that the mass is the source and the sum of the Christian life
1:13.3	has been so either not taken in or misunderstood the fact that 75% of Catholics regularly
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