Episode · The Tucker Carlson Show · 2025-06-02
Books mentioned on Bishop Barron on the New Pope, the Foolishness of Atheism, and Why Young Men Are Turning to Christ
There’s a revival going on, says Bishop Robert Barron. It’s unmistakable.
Bishop Robert Barron recommended iGen by Jean M. Twenge and Dominion by Tom Holland, and discussed Three to Get Married by Fulton John Sheen, Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Newman, Born of Water and the Spirit by John Williamson Nevin and others, Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone by Immanuel Kant, and Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley.
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Three to Get Married
Discussed“Go back now to the 1950s and Fton Sheen, the great Catholic preacher, writes a book called three to get married. Made the same argument, right?”
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Finnegans Wake
Discussed“You know, it's true because it corresponds in its intelligibility to an inquiring mind. The mind wants to understand that thing. What is that thing? It's beautiful because it's radiant. You know, it uh go back to like James Joyce, the famous scene, you know, in the in the portrait of the artist when he sees the woman he eventually”
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iGen
Recommended“I um Jean Twangi is the psychologist from San Diego that I read a lot and she has a book called IGEN about the generation that came of age totally with the iPhones and iPads and stuff and she said there's a direct correlation between screen time and depression which I find perfectly plausible.”
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An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine
Discussed“I would say there was development of doctrine. I'm using John Henry Newman's language there. Newman says that doctrine is not just handed out like a football, you know, from one generation to the other. It it unfolds more like a like a river expanding or like a a tree growing like so.”
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Born of Water and the Spirit
Discussed“the influence of Emanuel Kant and uh uh I might be boring your audience with this but Emanuel Khan late 18th century the most influential of the modern philosophers writes a book called religion within the limits of reason alone extremely important text hilarious title”
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Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone
Discussed“Emanuel Khan late 18th century the most influential of the modern philosophers writes a book called religion within the limits of reason alone extremely important text hilarious title”
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Dominion
Recommended“I'm with Tom Holland, you know, not Spider-Man, but the the popular historian Tom Holland. Do you know book called Dominion? Wonderful.”
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Frankenstein
Discussed“I mean she saw that by the way. It's very interesting about Mary Shel. I mean, she saw that coming. She saw exactly what will happen when we become God.”
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Other mentions in this episode (2) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Strangest Way
“I wrote a little book years ago called The Strangest Way. The strangest way.”
“I I mentioned the my ministry word on fire. We have the an addition of the Bible that I think is beautiful. It's full of great artwork, but also it's got the biblical text, but then surrounded by literally surrounded on the page by commentary from the church fathers and the great saints and the popes and so on.”