WOF 423: Simply Catholicism is the Answer
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
4.9 • 5.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Friends, the Catholic Church seems locked in constant disagreements, often between so-called liberal and conservative Catholics. But is there a third way to lead us out of this quagmire?
Cardinal Francis George offers a compelling answer, which Brandon Vogt and I discuss on today’s episode of the “Word on Fire Show.”
A listener asks, did Jesus ever get sick?
00:00 | Intro
01:13 | New episodes of “Bishop Barron Presents” are back!
03:24 | Who was Cardinal Francis George?
06:31 | Cardinal George’s critique of liberal Catholicism
09:45 | Why liberal Catholicism falls short of giving life
12:26 | Cardinal George’s critique of conservative Catholicism
18:11 | Cardinal George’s solution: simply Catholicism
20:53 | How Is Catholicism for our times and against our times?
23:38 | What Cardinal George might say to us today
24:39 | Listener question
26:41 | 2024 Wonder Conference
Links
- “How Liberalism Fails the Church” by Cardinal Francis George (Commonweal)
- Register for the 2024 Wonder Conference (August 2-4, 2024 – Rochester, MN)
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| 0:00.0 | Well, sure, I'm a culture |
| 0:02.0 | and I'm a culture celebrator. |
| 0:03.9 | At the same time, because I've got a mind and hard |
| 0:08.5 | big enough to take in both these elements. |
| 0:10.7 | The trouble with these warring factions in their self regarding stupidity |
| 0:15.6 | is that they can't make that move. Cardinal George understood this and |
| 0:20.5 | all the figures I mentioned understood this and that's the equilibrium that we're losing |
| 0:27.0 | today I fear and why we need someone like him to remind us. Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vatott the host and the senior publishing director at |
| 0:44.3 | Word on Fire. The Catholic Church seems locked in constant disagreement |
| 0:49.6 | often between so-called liberal Catholics and conservative Catholics, but is there a third way to lead us out of this quagmire? |
| 0:58.0 | Well, the late Cardinal Francis George offered a compelling answer, and it's one that we'll discuss today with one of his great |
| 1:05.7 | mentees Bishop Robert Barron who joins us now from Rochester, Minnesota. Bishop, good to see you. |
| 1:11.2 | Hey Brandon, always good to see you. Hey Brandon, always good to see you. |
| 1:13.0 | It is a new year, which means a new season of our Bishop Baron presents series. |
| 1:19.0 | You've been recording a number of these which we're going to roll out if they haven't already rolled out already. |
| 1:23.3 | I wanted to ask you about a couple that you recently recorded. |
| 1:26.0 | One was with the great Father Joseph Fessio. |
| 1:29.5 | Tell us about that discussion. |
| 1:31.6 | It was delight, yeah. Of course, he's the founder of Ignatius |
| 1:33.8 | press and a man who personally knew Henri de Lubeck and Hansers von |
| 1:38.1 | Baltazar and Joseph Rotzinger and is probably the one in our country most |
| 1:41.9 | responsible for bringing their thought into the mainstream. |
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