Show overview
WOF Show Podcast - Word on Fire launched in 2025 and has put out 60 episodes in the time since. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 3 days ago, with 22 episodes already out so far this year.
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Proclaim Christ In The Culture
Latest Episodes
View all 60 episodesWOF 544 | Modern Christian Martyrdom
WOF 543 | Christian Charity vs. “Suicidal Empathy”
WOF 542 | Why All Catholics Should Pray the Liturgy of the Hours
WOF 541 | Heaven in Stone & Glass – A New Feature Film by Bishop Barron
WOF 540 | How the Virtues Help Us Respond to an Increasingly Vicious Online Culture
WOF 539 | Celebrating America’s 250th Birthday
WOF 538 | Bishop Barron’s Work on the Presidential Religious Liberty Commission
WOF 537 | How to Keep the Momentum in the Surge of New Conversions
WOF 536 | Bishop Barron’s New Book on Persecution Against Christians
WOF 535 | Bishop Barron on Bishop Fulton Sheen
WOF 534 | The Evangelical Power of the Old Testament
WOF 533 | Hollywood & Catholic Priests
WOF 532 | The Suffocating “Warmth” of Marxist Collectivism
Dr. Matthew Petrusek Marxism, unfortunately, seems to be making a comeback despite its economically disastrous and inhumane track record.
WOF 531 | Social Media in Light & Darkness (pt. 3)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek How might faithful Catholics engage in social media? How might the Church? How do we cultivate a rich spiritual life in this ever-unfolding age of social media?
WOF 530: Catholic Ministry & Social Media (pt. 2)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek What, if anything, does social media have to do with Pope St. John Paul II? How does it fit into Word on Fire’s own principles?
WOF 529: The Art & Means of Communication (Pt. 1)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek Dr. Tod Worner sat down with Word on Fire CEO Fr. Steve Grunow and Bishop Barron to talk about social media.
WOF 528: The Early Days w/ Bishop Barron & Fr. Steve (pt. 2)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek Discover the ministry’s patron saints as well as some of the lessons that Word on Fire has learned through its years of evangelization.
WOF 527: Reason and Authority (12 of 12)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek In light of this critique, Newman offered an insightful defense of freedom and truth in the Catholic Church.
WOF 526: The Early Days w/ Bishop Barron & Fr. Steve (pt. 1)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek How did Word on Fire begin? What were its animating principles? What were some of its earliest strategies?
WOF 525: The Illative Sense (11 of 12)
Dr. Matthew Petrusek Bishop Barron explores Newman's analysis of the Illative Sense, explaining why it is an essential element in religious conversion.