WOF 471: How to Reclaim Civil Society for the Common Good

The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture

Brandon Vogt

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🗓️ 6 January 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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A cultural shift seems to be underway, at least within the United States, that is potentially making society more open—perhaps even more positively disposed—to the wisdom of the Catholic social thought tradition. If there is an opportunity for Catholic teachings to have more cultural and political traction now, how should the Church take advantage of it? What counsel can the Church give on complex policy issues like education, immigration, the economy, and foreign policy? Today we discuss the Catholic understanding of the common good and how it is especially relevant in this moment.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Word on Fire show. I'm Matthew Petrucic, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire show. Thank you for joining us. The teachings of the Catholic social thought tradition based in both natural law and revelation are and always will be timeless. However, their actual influence on secular society, including in the civic realm, waxes, and wanes. Sometimes a Catholic
0:23.3	worldview has a prominent voice in society, sometimes it's there, but ignored, and sometimes
0:29.4	it's hounded outside of the arena altogether. After a period of what could be described as a
0:35.2	coolness, if not outright animosity to Catholic conceptions of morality and the human good,
0:40.3	a cultural shift seems to be underway, at least within the United States, that is potentially making society more open, perhaps even more positively disposed to the wisdom of the Catholic social thought tradition.
0:55.7	Predictions are always hazardous and trends can suddenly reverse, but if there is indeed an opportunity for Catholic
1:01.9	teachings to have more cultural and political traction now, how should the church take advantage of it?
1:07.5	What practical principles should it advocate for to help society reorient itself
1:12.9	to the common good? More specifically, what counsel can the church give on complex policy issues?
1:20.2	Here to discuss the Catholic understanding of the common good and how it is especially relevant
1:24.5	in this moment is Bishop Robert Barron.
1:27.0	Thank you. is especially relevant in this moment is Bishop Robert Barron.
1:39.4	Welcome back to this studio, Bishop.
1:40.3	Thanks, Matt.
1:41.2	Always good to be with you.
1:47.4	So today, our topic is reclaiming Civic Society for the common good and looking at some potentially practical ways that we might be able to do that on some areas of policy.
1:52.3	But before we get into that, what have been up to recently?
1:56.0	Well, recently, I was at Catholic University of America, my alma mater.
2:00.2	I'm on the board of trustees now,
2:01.8	and I was able to make us in the first meeting, given my schedule, it's tough to make all the
2:06.1	meetings, but I got there, and I really enjoyed it, being back on campus. And it's a very good
2:10.5	board, a very active board, lots of good people on it. And while I was there, I had the wonderful
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