WOF 192: Karl Marx and Millennials
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2019
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today, we discuss a recent article in Teen Vogue titled "Who is Karl Marx?" which shows how many teens and teachers have begun dabbling in Marxism. There have been a slew of other articles noting the rise of Millennials supporting socialism. Having done his masters work in philosophy on Karl Marx, Bishop Barron introduces us to this influential thinker and his main ideas, noting the problems the Catholic Church has with them.
A listener asks why the Apostle's Creed says Jesus "descended into Hell."
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vat the host and the content director |
| 0:08.8 | at Word on Fire and Catholic Ministries joining us is the main man Bishop Robert Barron, |
| 0:13.9 | Bishop Barron, good to talk with you. Hey Brandon, always good to see you. Good to see you too. |
| 0:18.8 | I just got back from the big annual GK Chesterton con. Right. And you gave a paper in. |
| 0:25.0 | I did. I gave a little talk on Chesterton as husband and father, but it was so invigorating. |
| 0:30.6 | There was over 500 Chesterton fans from all over the world as far as Kenya, India, Chile, |
| 0:37.6 | tons of people from America and Canada. Cardinal Collins was there from |
| 0:41.2 | Toronto. Yeah, speaking of Canada, the art spaceship of Toronto, who funny and |
| 0:45.4 | great guy. He was a great guy. We get to talk to him for a while. They got a registration |
| 0:50.7 | just through the website from Thomas Collins from Toronto. And they're like, wait a second here. |
| 0:55.9 | This couldn't be art spaceship Thomas Collins or Cardinal Thomas Collins. Yeah. And so they emailed |
| 1:00.9 | them and they asked them and he said, oh, yeah, it's me. I just had a free weekend and I love Chesterton. |
| 1:05.6 | He's changed my life. So I just decided to register and come. And they're like, well, |
| 1:09.7 | we give a talk. We celebrate mass and he agreed to all that. So he spoke on the |
| 1:14.8 | day. Let me talk once on his own life. Yeah. And he's read a surprising number of Chesterton books. |
| 1:20.8 | He gave a talk quoting from, I think, close to a dozen of them talking about how he influenced him |
| 1:26.3 | as a young Catholic, but also as a priest in a bishop. So we recorded it. It's all online. But |
| 1:31.6 | just a delight. I love to see that. And your talk is recorded too. I like to watch. I |
| 1:36.4 | saw the notes you wrote for it. I'd like to like to hear it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, today we're |
| 1:41.9 | going to be talking about a burning and increasingly discussed topic, namely Marxism and various |
| 1:48.6 | forms of communism. This is, I think, thanks to the political climate, become a much more attractive |
| 1:55.4 | option, especially among young people. I see a lot of my fellow millennials, if not openly embracing |
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