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WOF 543: Christian Charity vs. "Suicidal Empathy"

8/31/2026 • 37 min

Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Petrusek, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute and the host of the Word on Fire Show. Thank you for joining us. The evolutionary behavioral scientist and public intellectual Gad Saad recently published an influential book entitled Suicidal Empathy: Dying to Be Kind. In it, Saad argues that much of the W… Play episode

WOF 542: Why All Catholics Should Pray the Liturgy of the Hours
WOF 541: "Heaven in Stone and Glass"—A New Feature Film by Bishop Barron
WOF 540: How the Virtues Help Us Respond to an Increasingly Vicious Online…
WOF 539: Celebrating America's 250th Birthday
WOF 538: Bishop Barron's Work on the Presidential Religious Liberty Commis…
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
WOF 531: Social Media in Light & Darkness (pt. 3)
WOF 530: Catholic Ministry & Social Media (pt. 2)
WOF 529: The Art & Means of Communication (pt. 1)
WOF 528: The Early Days w/ Bishop Barron & Fr. Steve (pt. 2)
WOF 527: Reason and Authority (12 of 12)
WOF 526: The Early Days w/ Bishop Barron & Fr. Steve (pt. 1)
WOF 525: The Illative Sense (11 of 12)
WOF 524: The Dangers of Life Becoming Too Easy
WOF 523: The Grammar of Assent (10 of 12)
WOF 522: What's It Like to Be a Catholic Bishop?
WOF 521: The Philosophical Habit (9 of 12)
WOF 520: Defending Religious Freedom
WOF 519: The Queen of the Sciences (8 of 12)
WOF 518: What Is the Christian Way of Caring for the Poor?
WOF 517: The Idea of a University (7 of 12)
WOF 516: How to Have a Civil Debate in a Polarized World
WOF 515: Developments Contrasted with Corruptions (6 of 12)
WOF 514: Celebrating St. John Henry Newman Becoming a Doctor of the Church
WOF 513: The Play of Lively Minds (5 of 12)
WOF 512: The Development of Christian Doctrine (4 of 12)
WOF 511: Newman as a Catholic (3 of 12)
WOF 510: Newman as an Anglican (2 of 12)
WOF 509: The Importance of St. John Henry Newman (1 of 12)
WOF 508: How to Build on Conversion Momentum
WOF 507: 1,700 Years of the Nicene Creed
WOF 506: Why Are So Many Young People Becoming Catholic?
WOF 505: Bishop Barron's Q&A with Irish Pilgrims
WOF 504: The Meaning and Purpose of Beauty (Part 2)
WOF 503: Our Call to Radical Self Gift
WOF 502: The Meaning and Purpose of Beauty (Part 1)
WOF 501: Christ's Real Presence in the Eucharist
WOF 500: Catholic Social Thought in the Age of AI
WOF 499: Four Culminating Themes of the Bible (Part 2)
WOF 498: How to Strengthen Catholic Identity in Catholic Schools
WOF 497: Four Culminating Themes of the Bible (Part 1)
WOF 496: The Evangelical Power of the Nicene Creed
WOF 495: The Bigger Story of the Bible with N.T. Wright (Part 2)
WOF 494: What to Expect from a Pope Leo XIV Papacy

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