Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Brandon Vot, the senior content director here at Word on Fire.

Today we're sharing with you a talk Bishop Baron recently gave at the 2021 Los Angeles Religious Education Congress.

Like many conferences, this conference was turned virtual because of the coronavirus.

So Bishop Baron pre-recorded a talk which he delivered on video titled Catholics, media mobs, and the culture of contempt.

A lot of his talk focuses on this swell of negative and nasty behavior that we're seeing not just among non-catholics on social media,

but even in especially among many Catholics. Bishop Baron talks about how we can address this problem and how we Catholics

personally can use social media and these internet tools more virtuously.

Before we get to the talk though, I wanted to mention a couple things. First, we just released yet another great new book titled

The Pope Benedict the 16th Reader. It actually came out on April 16th which was Pope Benedict's birthday,

so a great celebration of this incredible theologian. This reader was created for people who have long admired

Pope Benedict and have wanted to read more of his writings, but maybe don't really know where to start.

What we've done is we've pulled the best of the best sections from his many books. I think Pope

Benedict has written somewhere around 70 to 80 books. It's a huge corpus and intimidating for the beginning reader,

but we've taken the best of the best passages on theology, Christ, the church, Mary, the saints, prayer,

almost every theological topic you can imagine and we've pulled them into one simple volume. So you get

his best writings, his best magisterial teachings, his best reflections on prayer, his best speeches and homilies

all together in one place. You can learn more and order your copy of this beautiful book at word on fire.org slash

Benedict word on fire.org slash Benedict, whether you've been reading his writing for years or your new

and you haven't read a single word of Pope Benedict. This would be a great place to start again.

The Pope Benedict the 16th reader and you can find it at word on fire.org slash Benedict. Second,

I mentioned this a couple weeks ago, but we're asking for your help to bring to completion this word

on fire Bible series. As you know, we've released volume one which covered the gospels last year and

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