David Hahn sits down with Dr John Bergsma to unpack what it means for Catholics to 'major on the majors' rather than get lost in secondary debates. Bergsma reflects on the death of his teenage son to brain cancer earlier this year and points to the cross as the lens for understanding suffering, and explains why he prays through the Psalms every day as training for the spiritual life. He also addresses modern biblical scholarship's challenges to the Magisterium, including claims that Moses never existed, and debunks the Da Vinci Code-style myths around Opus Dei, of which he is a supernumerary.

Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
2:07 Majoring on the majors: the seven marks of Acts 2
8:25 Source criticism and the rabbit trails of biblical scholarship
13:26 Mind over matter: scripture's answer to modern materialism
16:53 The cross as the key to interpreting scripture
18:37 Losing a son and finding hope in Christ's suffering
19:57 Making sense of divine violence in the Old Testament
26:58 The Psalms as a training ground for prayer
38:44 From Protestant scholarship to Catholic authority
46:29 Saint Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei and where to start with Bergsma's books

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