| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Dr. Matthew Petrusick, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute, and the host of the |
| 0:14.2 | Word on Fire show. |
| 0:15.2 | Thank you for joining us. |
| 0:16.6 | This week, we're bringing you the rich question and answer session from Bishop Barron's recent |
| 0:21.1 | Jubilee Address to Irish Pilgrims in Rome, where he answers questions about faith, doubt, |
| 0:26.4 | mission, happiness, and much more. Enjoy. |
| 0:33.4 | Bishop Barron, lots of questions have come in relation to faith and doubt. |
| 0:38.3 | And I suppose when we go back home to Ireland, we're going to encounter a lot of doubts, |
| 0:42.3 | a lot of people questioning the experience that we've had here, maybe in Rome, |
| 0:46.3 | and just having doubts in general. |
| 0:48.3 | How would you talk to that, to that space about doubt and faith and wrestling with us? Yeah, I mean, it's a complicated question that. |
| 0:58.0 | But there's been a revival in Catholic apologetics the last 25 years. |
| 1:03.0 | I think in a way it was a gift of the new atheist to us. |
| 1:07.0 | Did your generation read Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris and those people? |
| 1:14.7 | So about 25 years ago, they were all the rage in the English-speaking world and raising all the skeptical questions about religion. |
| 1:22.2 | But what it led to was a revival. |
| 1:25.1 | And then couple that with the online reality, that the social media came into |
| 1:29.3 | existence. And now there are a lot of people showing forth the rationality of the faith. |
| 1:34.7 | So one approach is an intellectual approach to it. Think of the arguments from contingency, |
| 1:42.1 | arguments from the intelligibility of the world. |
| 1:45.7 | Gosh, recently, a lot of the scientific community is realizing that the more they know, |
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