Welcome back to the Word on Fire Show. I'm Matthew Patruis, Senior Director of the Word on Fire Institute and your host.

Today we are bringing you a recent conversation between Bishop Barron and Congressman

Row-Kana. Congressman Ka represents California's 17th Congressional District, best known as the home of Silicon Valley.

Over the course of the conversation, Bishop and Congressman Cona discuss his background, Catholic social teaching, various policy matters, finding common ground and why the American experiment is a great and worthwhile endeavor even to this day. Enjoy.

Well, I'm delighted to be here with the Representative Roal Kana from the 17th Congressional

District in California.

He's a man that represents a very interesting piece of a territory in our country because Silicon Valley basically, so you've got Facebook and you have Google and Apple in your district and I've been eager

Congressman for a while to talk to you because I find your positions intriguing

you're a little hard to pin down which I like you know And speaking from the standpoint of Catholic social

teaching, you know famously Catholic social teaching corresponds to neither of our

political parties. It's part of its genius I think, You know, you can't say what's clearly

Democratic, clearly Republican. It's also a source of ongoing

frustration for Catholics every election cycle, you know, so whom do we vote

for Bishop? And we say, well, you know,

Catholic social teaching says X, Y, and Z,

and A, B, and C, and now you got

to make up your mind and conscience.

So I thought we couldn't chat about some things

maybe in relation to Catholic social thought. I thought

and then your own thinking on political matter.

Well, that would be wonderful.

Look, I am so honored to be here.

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