Faith, Science, and Evangelization 

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.” - Albert Einstein. On his 50th Birthday “I am not an atheist,” he began. “The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God. We see the universe marvelously arranged and obeying certain laws but only dimly understand these laws.”--Albert Einstein

Bishop Barron - as a teacher in a Catholic school, speeches (and evangelization) like this will save the world - our children, our history, our educational systems, and our souls. God Bless.

“We dumbed down the Faith after the council” Thank you Bishop Barron for telling it as it is. 🙏

It brings glory to God and Christ Jesus to see so many sons of Abraham, who were once lost, now going back to their Overseer and Maker through the light of Christ. Israel's false shepherds certainly grieved God's Spirit by robbing Him of His worshippers and drove out His wisdom that guided all their prophets sent to them. He certainly is faithful, even though they rebelled, and waits patiently for the promise He made to Abraham. Israel still gave birth to His Son and Savior of the world, being a blessing to all nations. No one can confine God's understanding and His plans for mankind. The God who created heavens and earth has a Son and, being a Son and born King, inherits everything and has brought Him glory. Abraham, His servant, who was given the land of Israel on earth, still has descendants who seek His heavenly Kingdom, the New Jersualem, which will be an eternal Kingdom, coming from heaven with all those prophets and saints who waited for that Day!

I’m not sure what is going on in the Catholic Church on a whole. Where I live in rural East Tennessee my church has for years been small one service on sundays maybe 30-40 people. That was 4 years ago. Today there are closer to 200 with standing room only most weeks. They also have more people in confirmation class than they use to have in the whole church. When I was a kid in the late 80s in Florida we had thousands going to our church and only 7 people in my confirmation class. Something is changing. I only hope they can capitalize on it. My wife and I crave more from the Catholic Church than just one standard mass. We need more.

My personal experience: if you have no knowledge, you’re religious. If you gain some knowledge, you lose your religion. If you gain a lot of knowledge, you become religious again, but in a different way.

This is one of the best Bishop Barron talks I've heard.

Bishop Barron. I love it when you use Latin. You always explain the meaning and it helps me to continue growing in my knowledge and my faith. We are blessed to have you as our bishop in the Winona-Rochester Diocese.

Great talk Bishop Barron. I am on fire after hearing your talk. I am a STEM high school teacher and a catechist. We are facing the culture that wants to cancel or slient us when wanting to speak the truth about our Catholic tradition. Totally agree that we need to incorporate science, technolog and mathematics in our belief system to deepening our understanding of the universe that God created. There should not be any conflict between science and religion. Knowing God makes us fully alive as you pointed out. We should not be afraid to speak the truth despite being bullied or persecuted by the left in society. Thank you and may God continue to bless your ministry.

wonderful exhibition of theological insight. latin with a midwestern accent never ceases to amuse.

I got it. Someday everybody will get it !

God and Science do not compete with each other. God used science for everything He created.

Mon cher Bishop Baron, Please do not give up the beautiful Latin phrases in your talks;they are all said in Bona Fide! For many in this Christian tradition Latin is a "pattern" for "home;all roads lead to to Rome! Tante belle cose a te You are special!

I so want to hear the bishop in long conversation with John Vervaeke.

Once again, another reason why bishop Barron strengthens my faith. Thank you Father.

God wants us to understand His creation so He made it in such a way that we could describe it mathematically. That is what the universe is “mathematically intelligible.” And it is important for us to strive to understand it so that we can take care of it, so that we can be good, responsible stewards of it.

All very nice Bishop Barron. I totally agree with you. Scientism is bad. Science doesn't disprove the existence of God. But the main problem for young people is that science conflicts with the LITERAL reading of the Bible. Unfortunately, this probably is the main hurdle. You should make video on that topic. Thank you for all your great videos!

Thank you Bishop Barron for having the courage and the strength to pursue God's calling. Not everyone responds to His call and are distracted by the temptations of the material world. Not only did you accept God's calling to be a priest, a bishpp, you became the shepherd, the warrior, the healer. You do as you preach ...Thank you for your inspirational words every week. May God bless you! From a fellow folliwer of Our Lird Jesus Christ, raised by good Irish, Catholic parents!

*"Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty."* - Bertrand Russell

The opening humility was very refreshing coming from the Episcopacy... that plus the inherently atheist bias that pervades all levels of education (especially federally funded) are big contributors to my generation's misunderstandings about the faith

He’s not looking for fact, he’s looking for truth.

Reason + faith = 5.

Thank you Bishop Baron! You are helping me so much in my faith journey. God bless!

I súper loved this conference from Bishop Barron.. Putting together this never ending talks about science, faith, philosophy, theology.. so much good info to digest. Blessings Bishop Barron 🙏

Outstanding in breadth, scope and expression!

The world on Fire bible includes many answers to theese questions.thanks peace and blessings

This is the most beautiful speech I've ever seen.

"vague attempt to gesture in the direction of circularity" lolol classic!

The time flew by…thank you for the fascinating talk. My head is in the universe right now.😂 ♥️✝️

The unfortunate consequence of dumbing down the faith is that it allowed us to dismiss it as mere mythic superstition, only to run into the embrace of the even greater superstition of materialism, which decrees that consciousness and life magically emerge from dead matter.

Thanks Bishop Barron!! Everything lives because of GOD,The ORIGINAL ALMIGHTY BEING!!

Thank you Bishop ❤️🙏 God bless you 🕊️✝️

Always viewed science as proof that God exists. I have a chemistry degree, but needless to say my grades were not that good and I had to take advanced classes in physics and math as well. I did not fully understand everything but the complexities of it all humbled me and even furthered my faith and allowed me to appreciate the highly intellectual part of God

Dear Bishop, Saint Thomas Aquinas drew you to God. No you draw others ti God through him. How lovely. You Excel at this

Yes! Latin!❤

Your Excellency Bishop Barron, thank you. Not for this one particular segment, which helped me hear the Word in your topic and its lesson, but for you being here. My Catholic faith only gets stronger when I hear and watch intelligent and devout Holy Roman Catholics like you and Father Bernhard. Can you PLEASE help me find a way to obtain St. Benedict's book The Rule? I am having a heck of a time just acquiring any copy for myself. Thanks Your Excellency and God Bless.

Bishop Barron You and Father Steve Rock! Your stage is a cornerstone.❣😃✌

Thank you Bishop Barron❤😍🌏✝️

You touched on so many reasons why I want to get my masters so I can teach catechism and theology! Intellectual rigor and curiosity are super empowering for people, where materialism unintentionally hinders/depresses them

Brilliant. Thank you Bishop Barron. I understood about 95% of the talk: as I'm not very academic or into philosophy, but I'd struggle to explain it or argue with anyone. However I thought my busy mind was a health issue........but it's not so I'm super happy about that. God Bless us all in this amazing universe!

When Bishop Barron addresses Science and Religion and philosophy, I always learn a lot. Some of what I learn as a secular Catholic is what Barron does not talk about. It is very true that there is one true Science set against the many true Religions and that is what drives the emerging secular Religion of the Nones, not really dumbing down. Our children are learning how to live good and moral lives with the Grand Narratives of a new secular Religion, not from the Grand Narratives of Science. Science represents meaning and purpose for many scientists despite its nihilism just as Religion represents meaning and purpose for many evangelicals like Barron despite the many conflicting truths of Religions, but it is the nihilism of Science that is what all Religions need to emphasize to make their many cases. Barron does remind us very well about the nihilism of Science but then he evangelizes only his one true Religion. However, there are many, many true Religions that all show our children how to live good and moral lives and yet only one true nihilism of Science. Barron does not like my favorite philosopher Kant and does not mention the many true Religions from the Schism and Reformation much, nor does he mention Islam or the Eastern Vedas, Daoist, and Confucius Religions that teach most people in the world how to live good and moral lives. I am a secular Catholic because I believe in just the one true Religion that shows people how to lead good moral lives and my one true secular Religion has pieces of all true Religions despite their conflicting truths. My secular Religion then gives purpose and meaning to the nihilism of my Science...

Can you make a video explaining how bigginers can make huge a profit within a short period of time? I was at a seminar and the host spoke about making well over $880,000 within 4 months of investing $150,000. I just need to know how

I have seen most of your speaches bishop and this is by far the best It concisely summarises what you've taught over the years in the most brilliant and funny way

The Fatal Flaw of New Atheism by the Distributist is an excellent takedown of scientism that I highly recommend to anyone here interested

i love how excited you are in this talk!

Thanks, Father Grunow, AND Cardinal Barron. God bless you both.

Word on fire is the bomb!

Wonder-ful lessons and insights! God bless you Bishop!

Cómo siempre, genial ❤

Your masses and sermons were spectacular too.

Thanks for showing me the universe 📘🙏❤️🔥

Thank you very much, Your Lordship, for your inspiring thoughts & reflections !

Ok, what🧐 was or is or are that little walking thing, you speak of I want to see.?❣😃✌

We thank God for you Bh. I love St. Thomas as he explained faith and reason. Keep up! I pray for you to keep the flag of Christ flying.

Thank you so much for this. This talk was very good. I mean that analogously😂

Thank you for explaining everything so clearly ….. I understand much more when you explain it.

It would be interesting to see Robert Barron, an eloquent and erudite apologist for theism, confront the arguments of David Hume head-on and in a true “steel-manning” fashion. Extraordinary claims really do demand extraordinary evidence.

Geometrical figures are not the same as Forms. The former are invisible because they are the beyond-limit concepts (which are at heart of calculus). The latter are visible concrete functions within the environment. We creatively posit the perfect circle, we gradually grasp the universal pattern 'horse', by repeated observation of aspects of the pattern.

God bless Fr. Steve!

Bravo. Right up there with John Lennox interviews on Socrates in the City

Ok, I can understand and absolutely agree with this man's reasoning about God's existence, our very "being" is proof of it, that does make sense. However, I don't quite see how it points to the rules and directions for worshipping God. I mean, we can identify that He is real but all the ceremony and precise accordances with the traditions of the Christian faith seem arbitrary and very much man made. Like we're clutching at rules to follow for the praising of God yet He is far beyond our capacity to comprehend, understand or ritually follow in the manner of His choosing. Anyway, respect to the Christian community and thank you for a fascinating speech.

Thank you!!! I'm too grateful to be clever

The issue scientists have with organized religion is not the belief that application of the scientific method is the only way of knowing things but the claim that faith is a reliable way of reaching the truth. As Hebrews 11:1 says: "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" - ie. believing things in the absence of evidence. Many people are happy to accept that there may be an infinite power and presence underlying the cosmos. Hwoever, it seems absurd to believe that the only access to this infinite being is through acceptance of the convoluted dogmas and bureaucratic ritual practices of the Catholic Church. No wonder young people are abandoning the church in droves.

Blind belief in authority , is the greatest enemy of the Truth .

I think Bishop Barron should explore his ideas of the culture of self creation and the idea of the competiveness of God and the world. If God is conceived of as a being in the world then my self creation requires that he be rejected. If he exists outside the universe and is my creator then my act of self creation is at best futile. It would be really interesting to hear him consider these two ideas together. I think they are deeply related.

Nice!

So good. God bless.

Always Be Prepared....😊🙏

Really appreciate this video.

I loved your speech.

Well done!

Please enable closed captions (subtitle). I'm trying to locate the part of the speech where he mentioned Benedict XVI. Thanks.

Word.

Genius.

Bishop

9:08 The Matrix movies heavily borrow from both Plato's allegory of the Cave and the Hindu Upanishads. In Advaita Vedanta, this world is said to be a mere illusion.

Locke and Hume probably would have liked Chat gpt 3 😂-the blank slate that is fed all data available on the internet (through 2021) and organizes it based not on a self-awareness or a moral agency or a capacity for self-expression but on the catalyst of an agency outside itself - the human that is giving it instructions.

Here. (Mathematician)

Asuka best girl

Does anyone know where I can view the rest of this conference? I would really like to hear the other speakers. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it. Thanks.

Read Tzamalikos on Anaxagoras and Origen where all things are answered!!!

gestalt in search of the whole

The conference site does not have UTube speeches for view, except yours. Who did the "worm" you referred to?

Great to listen to you as always Bishop Barron speaking from your male point of view coming from a long line of male intellectuals ,philisophers,theologians, scientists etc and with all that left half the human race out in the cold for so long and denied them the right to participate in this world ...which now thankfully has been corrected,but what a waste - I'd like you to think about that and comment at some stage.

Having spent a career in science, I never saw the conflict. If there is a perceived conflict, it likely comes from tribal disinformation. Religion can be tested with the scientific method, not as an observer, but as a participant. You can seek God and see what happens. Do your questions get answered? etc. Now the science I was in was very "do what works", as we had to solve problems under extreme time pressure (30s to minutes), and often, at least 1x / week and up to 3x / day. So you gravitate toward what works in that situation and faith works. I think the answer to "evangelization" is not better explanation, but theological. The theology is in the Book of Jonathon. Jonathon and his armor bearer intervened to save Israel without help, according to God's guidance. Then all Israel rallied behind Jonathon. So if the Church wants to fill the pews, be Jonathon. How to do that was mapped out at Fatima by intervening on behalf of a sinful world through specific prayers requested by Holy Mary (Rosary, 1st Sat. Devotion etc.) as a means to prevent future world wars. Thus, a better path than trying to follow the example of the secular world with another boycott, is to follow the instruction given at Fatima and be Jonathon. Try to save the world & the world may just rally by filling the pews.

If the world is soo lost in scientism, then spinning the information world with powerful AI would kill the human soul forever.

I’m fully alive listening to BB, making love to my mind , heart , and soul. What’s his room number again? 😂 Seriously , I could listen all day . What I do is recommend these videos to my family and friends who just don’t “ it get “, when I try to explain my faith, my heart , and soul . Spread the love , and listen … just open up ,and hear. Loving my BB.

Your earlier comments about calling science teachers and religion teachers to "talk to each other" echoes a call made by C.P. Snow in an essay entitled The Two Cultures, that criticized the separation of literature and science, claiming that both schools, and society as a whole, have suffered because of the division.

Please do not forget to mention my brother that Plato also meant that the sun is the truth and that the truth is the moral good which is the ultimate good (i.e. our Lord). He must somehow have understood this and I can not know how but as Numinous of Apamea said: "What is Moses but Plato speaking Greek?".

I don't understand, am I supposed to view a formal syntactic structure of a language as a spiritual reality? Or is metaphysics between the physical and the spiritual? Is one to the other as data to hardware?

Doesn't the discovery in the area of quantum physics (and since I'm not a science guy I may not be precisely reciting it) that merely observing a thing can affect its results, similar to what you said about the "objective participant" model.

Taylor Marshall is seething right now 😂😂😂

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Did bishop Gregory 1X cause the bubonic plague ? So many Manchurian candidate in todays church , you would think there are no more shepherds but we know that,s not true . There will always be good shepherds , just to many wolf in sheep clothing . Could you talk about operation Gladio , operation Husky and operation Underworld , the CIA - Vatican alliance after WW11 money laundering and who was bishop of Rome at the time .

Faith and reason gets married in the catholic church.

the enescapability of metaphysics............what? That and the other 2 (8:41) before, I'm Catholic for 30 yrs and.....you lost me. Hey Father Barron, I love your stuff and have become acquainted w Mrs Davis (show on Pcok) because of your message. Revolutionary. My thing: there are all sorts of Catholics. יוי

I’m working through this thought. Please help. Before Jesus, humanity was intelligent. Individuals could perceive the intelligibility around and within themselves. The recognition of this intelligibility sparked a curiosity about its source. A variety of religions explored this reasonable perception. Because we are primates, the source of our intelligibility resembles our concept of a parent..It created us. As this curiosity grows some begin to suspect that our “creator” designed us to be aware of his existence. Does this mean our Creator desires a relationship? Another reasonable question. Other individuals intuit that our creator will show himself to us. I suspect many individuals of all religions had these reasonable intuitions in one form or another. The incarnation of Jesus Christ and the credibility of his identity based on centuries of scripture and tradition, fulfilled these intuitions for many. So once a Jew, Buddhist, Muslim or Pagan recognized Jesus as the source of their design they could transition away from their preJesus belief system that was based on their initial curiosity around the intelligibility they recognize and move in the direction of the one who created it, Christ. It was the word made flesh that ultimately satisfies the universal intelligibility “curiosity” humanity shares. Like Bishop Barron said, the mind does not rest once it recognizes something like intelligibility. It will only rest when it finds the source.

Amazing work. Feedback, the 3rd point falls a part a bit with a hang up on a unnecessary claim on "being" defintions. I know you have a certain revelation that excites you in this area Bishop, just maybe qualify as non essential...especially to the total topic of metaphysics. Competition is not necessary in the context setup, and the analogy seems to head toward monism. Participation in the divine nature as a separate free will being seems to be Love's motive and basic structure.

Where was this man during the 2000s? When Hitchens & co wrecked havoc on the culture. Hitchens would have been cancelled today as Dawkins is afraid of being today.

I have a mathematical truth that is making me crazy. If we add 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 we get 1. But if we follow the rules of mathematics and do the division first before the addition then we get .33 + .33 + .33, which means that .99 must be equal to 1. I know it is a paradox but how do we deal with it?