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?

00:00 | Intro
01:36 | 60,000 Rosaries Prayed for fallen-away Catholics
03:02 | 500,000 copies of “This Is My Body”
05:05 | New book - “Catholics and Contempt” by John Allen, Jr.
07:25 | Why Catholics participate in the culture of contempt
09:00 | The shadow side of "cheap speech"
11:20 | Why contempt is so attractive, even to Catholics
13:28 | William Lane Craig's model of engagement
16:43 | How not to respond to contempt
18:11 | Custody of the tongue and social media detox
20:22 | Just don't look at contemptuous media
23:24 | The need for a Catholic Commons space
25:36 | Listener question
28:11 | Word on Fire resources

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“Catholics and Contempt” by John Allen, Jr. - https://wordonfire.org/contempt

“Word on Fire Bible, Vol III: The Pentateuch” - https://wordonfire.org/bible

“This is My Body” by Bishop Barron - https://wordonfire.org/eucharist

Word on Fire Rosary Initiative - https://wordonfire.org/may

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