Robert Luna
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 7 Jun
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In regards to civil immigration enforcement, they told us that specifically would not be occurring at any of the games.
There have been four measles outbreaks this year in this country. Last year, there were 16. So it's not unusual. We have measles outbreaks every year.
You know, measles at one point was killing about 10,000 people a year in our country. Those deaths were eliminated through nutrition and... and sanitation.
You need to start pretty much in twilight as soon as the sun has set and then you need to look over at Mercury and Saturn over in the west, both very low down. Above them is Venus, it's the brightest of the planets. Further round, you can find Neptune and Uranus, but you need a telescope for those. And then further round still is Jupiter. That's really bright too.
And then even further round is Mars, and that's got this distinct pinkish-reddish colour, so it really stands out too.
And still to come on the Global News Podcast. It's kind of disrespectful to Abraham Lincoln and to the penny itself, the way we treat it. We just leave it on the sidewalk, leave it in our jar and we never bring it back.
The essential problem isn't just that it costs actually more than three cents to mint a penny. But that the value of the penny has fallen so little in comparison to the value of our time due to inflation that people don't even stoop over to pick a penny up and they don't bring their pennies back to the store.
And so the store then has to ask eventually the mint to make more of them, setting this vicious cycle in motion. But I think there's really only two groups that lose out in this process. And that is the people who work at the U.S. Mint, because about half of the coins they make are pennies.
And then the people in the zinc industry, they have been lobbying a long time a group called Americans for Common Sense. Our penny is 97.5% zinc, so they're going to lose out a little bit.
Well, we certainly do, because when I was a kid, a penny was valuable. You could go down to the gumball machine at the grocery store and get a piece of gum. It was great. And pennies stand out. I mean, all the other coins are kind of silvery looking and it is so beautiful and shiny and copper looking, the penny. So we all have a very fond memory of these.
But I would say that it's kind of disrespectful to Abraham Lincoln and to the penny itself, the way we treat it. We just leave it on the sidewalk. We just leave it in our jar and we never bring it back. So probably time to get rid of the dear old penny.
Jordan, thank you. I'm Robert Barron. I'm the bishop of the Winona Rochester Diocese, which is basically southern Minnesota. I'm also the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, which is an evangelical So I'm here as a believing Christian, as an evangelist, and I think there's saving power in these great texts.
But I'm also here as someone interested in the cultural impact right now of the scriptures. I think it's fascinating, you played a role in this, that there's been a revival of interest in the Bible. And a lot of my ministry is directed toward the nuns, the N-O-N-E-S, those who have no religion. But many of them are fascinated by the Bible. So I'm eager to hear everyone's perspective.
And I'm here partially to, you know, try to unlock some of the power of this text for those who have been alienated from religion for different reasons. But just delighted to be part of it.
Could I maybe suggest, in some ways, the climax of the New Testament revelation is the claim that God is love. I like the way you set that up. If power and hedonism are absolute values, then we're in serious trouble. Put love above both of them. Now power is directed by love. And what's love but to will the good of the other?
So the sacrificial narrative of the cross fits under that heading as well. But if the ultimate reality is love, then we can find a place for all these subordinate values. if we get rid of love as a supreme value, then we have the serious problem of power unleashed, or hedonism for its own sake. So I think that's the trajectory toward which the entire New Testament is going.
That God's name is being in the Old Testament. I am who I am. And Christian theology recognizes that as a supremely high name of God, but higher still is the claim that God is love. And in fact, the Trinity comes from that. You know, if God is love in his own most nature, there must be lover, beloved, and love shared.
So I might suggest that's where the New Testament is going, is love is the supreme value, the supreme reality.
Out of love.
That's the great expression of love. Right.
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