WOF 216: “1917,” War, and Faith

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 27 January 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The hit movie 1917 vividly depicts the horrors of World War I, including its great spiritual peril. In this episode, Bishop Barron reflects on the Great War, discussing its impact on twentieth-century theology and philosophy, the Pope, and the Catholic Church’s relationship to the world.

A listener asks why Jesus chose to live a quiet, mostly obscure life.

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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.
0:12.5	Here at Word on Fire, Catholic Ministries. And I'm glad to be joined back in the studio
0:17.4	by Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, good to see you.
0:20.7	Hey Brandon, you know, I was talking to someone the other day and they couldn't believe that you and
0:24.9	I are across the country when we do this. I said, we have Brandon's in Orlando, typically and I'm in
0:30.8	Santa Barbara and they said, you're kidding. They just thought we were we were in the same, I don't know
0:35.2	what, the same state or house or something. But I said, no, no, we're three thousand miles away from
0:40.1	us. I guess we pull it off well then. Yeah. Listen, last episode that we talked, we explored your
0:47.1	upcoming ad limine of visit. So this is the periodic visit, bishops take to go visit the Holy Father
0:52.4	in Rome to kind of update the hymn on what's going on in their diocese and you're going over to
0:56.8	Rome in four days here. But yeah, really the main reason that bishops go over Rome is not just to
1:03.0	meet with the Holy Father, but to pray at the tombs of Peter and Paul. Talk a little bit about that
1:08.6	and why it's significant. Yeah, of course, the visit's called the ad limina. I'm just just short for
1:13.5	ad limina apostolorum, which means to the threshold of the apostles. So the idea is you go to pray,
1:19.7	as you say, the tombs of Peter and Paul. It's a renewal of bishops. It's a prayerful renewal of our
1:27.5	commitment as successors to the apostles. So that's really what it's all about. Now while we're
1:33.6	there, we also meet with the successor of Saint Peter. The main purpose is to go to the tombs of
1:39.9	Peter and you'll see if you're following some of these visits on Facebook and Instagram,
1:44.8	they go to all the great basilicas. So we'll do that too. We'll go to all the great basilicas of
1:49.2	Rome for mass. Then we see the successor of Peter. That's true. We'll see Francis. And then we
1:54.9	also go to all the curial offices, clergy and lady and worship and doctrine of the faith and
2:03.2	evangelization, et cetera. And we talk to those people who support the successor of Peter and his
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