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Jun 2023
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WOF 389: Catholics and the Culture of Co...

BISHOP ROBERT BARRON
About this episode

Friends, what fuels our modern "culture of contempt," so prevalent online? And how can Catholics resist it?

A helpful new book by John Allen, Jr., Catholics and Contempt, seeks to answer those questions, and on today's "Word on Fire Show" I discuss the book with Brandon Vogt.

A listener asks, do the three transcendentals include unity?

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