Welcome to the road to a may as a podcast from the St Paul Center. I'm Dr.

Scott Hahn and I am thrilled to be joined today by Dr. Ralph Martin a dear

friend of many years. Well I'm thrilled to be here to see the new center.

It's the first time I've seen it, and it's just wonderful.

It is, isn't it?

It's fantastic.

It combines the functional and the aesthetic in a way that is beautiful and really efficient.

It has such a nice atmosphere to it.

You know, it has a nice peaceful, simple, beautiful atmosphere to it.

Yeah, and here we are in the all-purpose room filming a podcast and later tonight

you'll be in the all-purpose room giving a lecture to a crowded audience.

I'm sure it's going to be crowded.

Yeah, I'm looking forward to I feel very comfortable being here in Steubenville.

I long ties with Franciscan University.

I still have some grandkids going there and have a son-in-law teaching there and my daughter teaches at Catholic Central and then just being all the things

over the years we've done with St Paul Center and the priest conferences and everything

so it's been really a just so I feel comfortable I feel with

some brothers and sisters in the Lord you know this isn't just an author kind of

visiting the publisher but you know we're we're friends in the Lord yeah it really is a

second home to you because you were on the

board of trustees for 12 years at some really pivotal moments at a

suspicious time you know you were also on on the fire team with Anne Shield with Father Mike, you know,

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