WOF 301: Bishop Barron's Q&A w/ Yale University Students
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this Q&A session with students at Yale University from February 2021, Bishop Barron answered a variety of questions from students, including:
- Do you think that the culture’s view of sex has kept people outside of the Church? How do we charitably share our view?
- What did you decide to give up for Lent?
- How do we discern if bad things are tests from God, Satan, or just the way of the world?
- What are some opportunities for evangelization that COVID has produced?
- Why is confession necessary for the forgiveness of mortal sins?
- If you could have dinner with one saint, who would it be and why?
Links
- A Journey with Jonah: The Spirituality of Bewilderment by Fr. Paul Murray, OP
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vott, the host and the senior publishing |
| 0:10.9 | director at Word on Fire. Today we have something cool to share with you. It's a Q&A that Bishop |
| 0:16.8 | Aaron recently did with students at Yale University. It was hosted by the St. Thomas More |
| 0:22.9 | Catholic Chapel and Center at Yale, which I believe is their Catholic student ministry. |
| 0:29.2 | And Bishop fielded questions from some really smart young people, questions regarding sexuality, |
| 0:35.5 | spirituality, evangelization, and a whole lot more. So I think you're really going to |
| 0:39.6 | enjoy it. It's about an hour long. But before we get to that Q&A, we have yet another new |
| 0:45.3 | book from Word on Fire. I know we've been releasing a lot of new books lately. We've been |
| 0:50.5 | very effusive in our publishing department. But today we got a new one. It's by Father |
| 0:55.3 | Paul Murray. He's one of our great Dominican friends at Word on Fire. Father Paul recently |
| 1:00.5 | published a book on St. Catherine of Siena with Word on Fire. But this new one is titled |
| 1:05.3 | A Journey with Jonah, the spirituality of bewilderment. Let me share with you the description. |
| 1:12.0 | Jonah is the only ancient prophet with whom Jesus identifies in the Gospels. But when we turn to |
| 1:18.4 | read the book of Jonah itself, we discover that this so-called book is only two pages long, |
| 1:25.0 | and that Jonah's prophesying is limited to one short sentence. And yet around this small book, |
| 1:31.1 | as if it were around Jonah's own troubled ship, high waves of controversy and mystery have |
| 1:36.8 | swirled for centuries. In this new book, A Journey with Jonah, Father Paul Murray strives to uncover |
| 1:42.9 | the great lesson of this story. One cool feature of this book is that in addition to Father Paul's |
| 1:48.6 | own reflections, we also include a 2003 Lexio Davina reflection on the Book of Jonah by then Cardinal |
| 1:56.6 | Joseph Rattsinger, later Pope Benedict XVI, which is published here in English for the very first |
| 2:03.0 | time. So it's a very first time English speakers can get the future Pope Benedict's reflections on |
| 2:08.1 | the Book of Jonah as well as Father Paul's. So check it out, A Journey with Jonah, you can pick up |
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