WOF 138: Why Religious Liberty?

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🗓️ 30 July 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What do we mean by religious liberty? Why should all people, including non-religious people, care about protecting religious liberty? Bishop Barron recently joined the U.S. Bishop's Committee for Religious Liberty, and has been thinking about these questions more deeply. Today, he gives an overview of the topic, including a look at John Courtney Murray, Vatican II, and what ordinary Catholics in the pew can do to promote religious liberty. A listener asks about the divide which has arisen between academic theology and spirituality.

Topics Discussed

0:04 - Introduction, USCCB meeting in Florida
2:00 - What is religious liberty?
5:50 - Why should atheists care about religious liberty?
9:00 - What is the history of religious liberty in the USA?
16:00 - Is religious liberty under attack in America now?
19:50 - What are the best ways to propose religious liberty, and how can we defend religious liberty in our own way?
25:45 - Listener Question: How to we heal the gap between theology and spirituality?

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Votte, the host, and joining us as he does
0:10.0	on every episode is the great Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, welcome back.
0:14.4	Hey Brandon, always good to be with you. It's good to be with you. You know, we were just together
0:18.8	down here in Florida. In my neck of the woods, you were down here for the USCCB meeting, which was
0:24.5	held in Fort Lauderdale. There was lots and lots of bishops, different committees convening to talk
0:29.2	about different priorities. Tell us about that. How did the meeting go for you?
0:34.0	Well, it was good. I was there for almost a whole week. I came on Sunday because my
0:38.2	meet, my committee is evangelization and catacletes. I'm the chair of that committee. We met on Monday,
0:43.8	it's like an all day affair. I met with the staffers of my committee Sunday night, right, when I got
0:49.2	there. And then Tuesday was the meeting of the committee on religious liberty, of which I'm a member.
0:55.7	Then the main meeting began Wednesday, continuing to Thursday. That's all the bishops of the country
1:02.0	meet twice a year, once in the summer, once in November. The summer meeting shifts around. It
1:08.3	goes to different cities. So that was Wednesday, Thursday. And then, did I come back on Friday to
1:15.3	to LA. So it was good week. It was long. The meetings are, they're good. I mean, we cover a lot of
1:22.7	important complicated topics I find. And each one is complicated. And you know, just trying to get
1:29.9	our thoughts together, get different perspectives, strategize about them. So it's an interesting week.
1:37.5	But it's a long week too. Well, we're going to talk about one of those complicated topics here.
1:43.6	And it's religious liberty. I want to spend this whole podcast discussing that. Again,
1:48.4	you mentioned you're on the USCCB committee for religious liberty. So you've been thinking about
1:53.2	this for some time. First of all, let's define our terms. What do we mean by religious liberty? What
1:59.2	are we talking about here? Well, it's the right to to worship God and to act religiously in the
2:06.6	public forum, according to the dictates of one's conscience. And so we've recognized that in our
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