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Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith (Second Edition)

Catholicism: A Journey to the Heart of the Faith (Second Edition)

by Bishop Robert Barron

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Winner of the CMA 2026 Book Award for Education: Modern Exploration of the Catholic Faith (2nd Place)

What is Catholicism? A two-thousand-year-old living tradition? A worldview? A way of life? A relationship? A mystery? In Catholicism, Bishop Robert Barron examines all these questions and more, seeking to capture the body, heart, and mind of the Catholic faith.

Starting from the essential foundation of Jesus Christ’s Incarnation, life, and teaching, Bishop Barron moves through the defining elements of Catholicism—from sacraments, worship, and prayer, to Mary, the Apostles, and saints, to grace, salvation, heaven, and hell—using his distinct and dynamic grasp of art, literature, architecture, personal stories, Scripture, theology, philosophy, and history to present the Church to the world.

Paired with his documentary film series of the same title, Catholicism is an intimate journey capturing “the Catholic thing” in all its depth and beauty. Eclectic, unique, and inspiring, Bishop Barron brings the faith to life for a new generation in a style that is faithful to timeless truths while simultaneously speaking in the language of contemporary life.

This second edition includes:

  • A new preface from Bishop Barron
  • Beautiful full-color images of sacred art and stunning cathedrals
  • A comprehensive bibliography
  • Expanded notes from Bishop Barron
  • A Scripture index
  • A revised subject index

Please note: Audiobook version is of the first edition.

Details

Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-266-5
Binding: Hardcover
Page count: 320
Dimensions: 6.25 x 9.25 (in)
Thickness: 1.17 (in)
Made in: United States
Language: English
Release date: Sep 08, 2025
Publisher: Word on Fire
ISBN: 978-1-68578-313-6
Language: English
Duration: 8 hours, 49 min
Platform: Lifetime access Word on Fire Digital app streaming + offline access (You will receive an email with instructions to access your audiobook after checkout.)

About the Author

Bishop Robert Barron

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and the host of CATHOLICISM, a groundbreaking, award-winning documentary about the Catholic faith. On July 21, 2015, Pope Francis announced his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and on June 2, 2022, he appointed Bishop Barron the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota). Ordained in 1986 in the Archdiocese of Chicago, Bishop Barron received a master’s degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 1982 and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992.

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About the Author

Bishop Robert Barron is the founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries and the host of CATHOLICISM, a groundbreaking, award-winning documentary about the Catholic faith. On July 21, 2015, Pope Francis announced his appointment as Auxiliary Bishop in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, and on June 2, 2022, he appointed Bishop Barron the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester (Minnesota). Ordained in 1986 in the Archdiocese of Chicago, Bishop Barron received a master’s degree in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 1982 and a doctorate in sacred theology from the Institut Catholique de Paris in 1992.

What People are Saying

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“Bishop Robert Barron’s Catholicism takes a path less traveled in leading us to explore the faith through stories, biographies, and images. In these pages, we meet the ‘Word made flesh’ not only in theological formulations but also in saints and poets, cathedrals and chants, priests and prophets. What makes Catholicism so compelling are the ways in which Bishop Barron shows how the Incarnation goes on in the true, the good, and the beautiful.”

—Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York

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“Clarity, intelligence, passion, and elegance—these are the marks of a writer in top form, and Bishop Barron brings all these gifts to bear in this extraordinary reflection on the Catholic faith. If you read one book this year on what Catholics believe and why, this is the book to read—and to share with others.”

—Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, OFM Cap., Archbishop Emeritus of Philadelphia

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“Catholicism is one of the most significant efforts ever to advance what Pope John Paul II called ‘the New Evangelization.’”

—George Weigel, author of Witness to Hope and The End and the Beginning

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“When Bishop Barron is talking, I can’t stop listening. Whatever he writes, I can’t put down unfinished. He loves the people he addresses. He writes about what matters to us. To read him is to be loved in word after word. In these pages, heart speaks to heart.”

—Mike Aquilina, coauthor of The Mass: The Glory, the Mystery, the Tradition

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“Bishop Robert Barron’s great gift is to wed intellectual depth with clarity and vividness of expression. His Catholicism is a superb exploration of the Catholic vision that seamlessly unites theological reflection and masterpieces of architecture and art. The story he tells comes truly alive in his portraits of concrete men and women who, in every age, have lived the journey of faith to the full.”

—Robert P. Imbelli, associate professor emeritus of theology, Boston College, and author of Christ Brings All Newness

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