Theology is the queen of the sciences. It is not just one science among many but the principal organizing science. If it is taken out of this central organizing place, something else will take its place. In this lesson, Bishop Barron helps us understand why Newman thought theology was of crucial importance in education.

Topics Covered:

• Theology as the queen of the sciences
• Consequences of supplanting theology
• The Liberal Arts
• The Philosophical Habit

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A listener asks advice on how God being in a non-competitive relationship with human beings applies to his mission as an evangelist.

Topics Covered:

00:00 | Introduction
01:53 | Bishop Barron at the annual meeting of US bishops
03:39 | The three essential tasks of the Church
07:48 | The necessity of charity in true worship
09:04 | Understanding and identifying poverty
10:58 | The margins, the marginalized, and Catholic social teaching
16:08 | Understanding institutional sin
18:40 | The salvific dimension of poverty
21:17 | The voluntary poverty of the Church
22:57 | What about spending money on cathedrals?
26:03 | Beauty as service to the poor
27:11 | Defining "preferential option for the poor"
31:16 | The Church, policy, and the poor
35:18 | Right to private property or universal distribution of goods?
37:42 | The evangelical dimension of caring for the poor|
40:06 | Listener question: If God exists noncompetitively, does my mission matter?
41:45 | Join the Word on Fire Institute

• Dilexi Te: https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20251004-dilexi-te.html
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Newman's articulation of the nature of university education in his ​The Idea of a University ​is crucial today in that a polytechnic model has replaced classical liberal education and theology has been exiled from most institutions.

Topics Covered:

• Why theology is a science
• Why secularism destroys the university
• Oxford ideal

• Read: Fifteen Sermons by John Henry Newman
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