Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Brandon Vott and once again I am joined by Bishop

Robert Barron, Bishop Barron. We love having you. So welcome.

Brandon, it's always a joy to be with you. Tell us a little bit about some exciting events

that you've recently been invited to over the last month or so.

Yeah, I was invited to go to an event at the Vatican in early June and it's a jubilee

for priests for the year of mercy. And as I understand it, the idea is they're going to gather

priests all over the world and they've asked someone in each major language group to address

the priests on the theme of mercy. So they told me it's going to be in one of the major

churches in what they call the Centro Stodico of Rome, the historical center. So somewhere

right in the heart of the city. So that'll be in June and the next day the Pope is going

to give talks to all the priests gathered there. So I was very excited about that. I got

the invitation several months ago now. And then just about 10 days ago to my great surprise,

I was invited to give Catecheses at the World Youth Day in Crockow. And tell me the truth,

you know, I had thought about it. There's a couple of years ago when I heard it was going

to be in Crockow. I thought it'd be great to go there, John Paul to his hometown. But then,

you know, I really forgot about it. So they invited me to give these Catecheses. So I was

overjoyed to accept even though it means two big trips to Europe within about a six-week period.

And then I was invited. I'm very pleased about this for 2017 to give the Erasmus lecture,

which is a major lecture sponsored by the folks over at First Things. It's held in New York. And

this past year it was Roth's Dalphit gave the lecture. And prior to him, it was Archbishop

Shephew of Philadelphia. So I was very honored to be asked that would be kind of a more serious

academic lecture. So anyway, all these events are coming up. Well, today we're talking about the

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