Welcome back to the Word on Fire show. I'm Matthew Petrusick, senior director of the Word on Fire Institute

and the host of the Word on Fire show. Thank you for joining us. As we continue this second half of a

conversation from last year's good news conference in Orlando with Bishop Barron and Word on Fire CEO,

Father Steve Grunow, we'll discover the ministry's patron saints as well as some of the lessons

that Word on Fire has learned through its years of evangelization.

We'll also take a look at Word on Fire's plans for the future.

Here to discuss these with Father Steve Bruno in the last second half of the conversation is Bishop

Robert Barron.

Thank you. You know, we do a lot of praying in the office, and frequently the prayers are concluded with, you know, asking for the intercession of some of our patrons, our patron saints.

And the new employees are always fascinated by who and why.

These are the patrons of Ward on Fire.

The most famous is Thomas Aquinas.

And tell how that came about.

Well, I've told that story many times, but I'm a priest because of Thomas Aquinas.

My Episcopal motto is taken from Thomas, non-nezzite domine.

I'll have only you.

It was a course I took as a freshman in high school at Fenwick High School outside Chicago and was introduced in a kind of simple way to Aquinas.

But I can't understand it

except as an expression of grace. It just lit a fire in my mind. And I went to the library

and I took off the shelf one of Mortimer Adler's, the great book series. And it was a book

on Thomas Aquinas. And I took it off the shelf and looked up

these arguments for God's existence that I found really interesting.

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