WOF 379: Pope Francis and the Dangers of Technocracy

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Friends, one major theme appearing throughout the teachings of Pope Francis is the danger of technocracy. In his 2015 encyclical, Laudato si’, he coined the term “technocratic paradigm,” using the term five times in the encyclical.

Should we be concerned about our technocratic society, one dominated by tech and science and which, in turn, aims to dominates nature? That’s what I discuss with Brandon Vogt today on “The Word on Fire Show.”

A listener asks, what’s the difference between the Protestant and Catholic understandings of the Church?

Links

Word on Fire Liturgy of the Hours (Founder’s Discount ends 3/31)
Bishop Barron at The Heritage Foundation
Bishop Barron w/ Brett McKay on “Art of Manliness”
Bishop Barron w/ Alex O’Connor on “Within Reason”
Laudato si’ by Pope Francis
Letters from Lake Como: Explorations in Technology and the Human Race by Romano Guardini
After Humanity: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man by Michael Ward

Transcript

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0:00.0	the technology that flows from this more scientific approach to life.
0:06.3	Can result, and there is the Pope's phrase, in a technocracy that we're now governed
0:13.6	by technology.
0:23.2	Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show.
0:25.4	I'm Brandon Vat the host and the Senior Publishing Director.
0:28.9	Will we be concerned about our technocratic society, one that's dominated by tech and
0:34.2	science and which in turn seeks to dominate nature?
0:38.9	And what can Pope Francis teach us on this topic?
0:41.7	Well, that's what we're discussing today with Bishop Robert Barron, who is freshly
0:45.8	back in Minnesota from his trip to Washington, DC.
0:48.7	We'll talk about that in a moment.
0:50.4	But Bishop, good to see you.
0:51.7	It's been a while.
0:52.7	It has, Brandon.
0:53.7	Good to see you as always.
0:54.7	I'm just getting over a cold.
0:56.1	I hope I don't have too many coughing fits during our time today.
1:01.1	I do want to get into this interesting topic, but we haven't been together in a while.
1:05.0	I thought we could briefly update people on three different events you recently did.
1:09.7	One was the Heritage Foundation, which I think was just yesterday.
1:13.8	Is that correct now that we're recording this in March?
1:16.5	They're running together.
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