Welcome to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vot, the content director at Word on Fire.

And with me, once again, is the illustrious Bishop Robert Barron. Bishop Barron, great

to do with you. Brandon, it is always a great joy to be on with you.

Before we get into today's topic, Bishop, why don't you catch us up a little bit on what's

going on in your life? Any talks or events you've recently done?

Yeah, I'm down here at the Cathedral Los Angeles for the whole week because I had some administrative

meetings, but also last night and tonight, I am giving these talks for the year of mercy.

And the idea is to draw people in to hear this talk and then go to confession.

I'll tell you a great thing last night. We had about, oh, maybe 600 people in the cathedral.

And the pastor came out and he said, you know, everybody, we have 24 priests here. A lot of

priests came and they're willing to hear you confession. So we're hoping that we can offer

this at the end of the talk at which point the crowd broke into applause. And so I said,

it's the first time in my priesthood. I've ever heard people applauding for confession.

And I thought it was just a wonderful sign that they said, great, we're delighted that's available

to us. And because there was so many priests, it wasn't like a huge long wait for everybody.

So anyway, that was great. And then tonight, I'm doing the same talk to a different crowd.

So it's called mercy at the Cathedral. So that's my activity. Then on Monday, the following

Monday, I'm giving the chrysum day talk. So all the priests come or a lot of them will come on

Monday. I'll give these talks and then we have the chrysum mass for the whole arts diocese. So

should be a great day. Well, Bishop, today we're going to talk about a subject that we've

broached in the past. And it's the relationship between science and philosophy. A few of our

previous episodes have dealt with those two disciplines. But today, I want to go a bit deeper.

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