WOF 218: The Intellectual Life
The Word on Fire Show - Catholic Faith and Culture
Brandon Vogt
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🗓️ 10 February 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How did Bishop Barron get drawn into the life of the mind? What are his reading and writing habits like? In this episode, he discusses the intellectual life and gives advice to aspiring intellectuals.
A listener asks which literature books Bishop would recommend for a Catholic high school English class.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot the host and the content director |
| 0:12.4 | at Word on Fire and we're joined back state side with Bishop Robert Barron. He's back |
| 0:17.5 | from Rome from his big ad limina visit which we'll talk about here. Bishop it's good to have you back. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm Brandon good to see you. I'm just still recovering from jet lagging but I slept okay |
| 0:27.7 | last night but it always takes me about five days to recover when I get back from these trips. |
| 0:33.1 | And now that you're out in Santa Barbara it's a grueling trip back into Rome. Multiple flights |
| 0:38.0 | driving two hours back to Santa Barbara. It's time. Nine hour time difference you know so my poor |
| 0:44.1 | body had zero idea what time it was or anything so it always takes me a while. While you were there in |
| 0:50.3 | Rome you wrote a couple of articles one of them was reflecting on your experience with Pope Francis |
| 0:55.4 | so you spent over three hours in a discussion with Pope Francis along with the other bishops from |
| 1:00.7 | California Nevada and Hawaii and then another article reflecting on your experiences praying at |
| 1:06.2 | the tomb of St. Paul so I don't want to dwell too much on that but in addition to that any other |
| 1:11.6 | major highlights or important things that happened during your trip there. Oh it was a wonderful trip |
| 1:18.4 | memorable. I think we'll do a special video on the visit with the Pope but that was |
| 1:24.0 | extraordinary. Spend that amount of time with a figure of that you know important. |
| 1:29.1 | For me the bottom line was he really was a spiritual father. That was the the atmosphere he created |
| 1:35.6 | that's the the persona definitely that he exhibited at that meeting and and I was actually quite |
| 1:41.8 | close to him just the way it worked is our special Gomez came in right after Cardinal Mahoney was |
| 1:47.3 | you know it's everything in Rome is very hierarchical so the Cardinal first then the senior archbishop |
| 1:52.7 | Gomez and then after Gomez his auxiliaries so that meant that I was fairly close to the front. |
| 1:58.5 | I was maybe five chairs away from the Pope so he was I don't know you know 12 feet away from me |
| 2:04.9 | so just that in itself was kind of extraordinary meeting him talking to him face to face. |
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