What Is Democracy? w/ Bishop Robert Barron

In a letter to the Massachusetts militia, John Adams wrote, "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." What are the origins of our system of democracy? How is it faring in the modern world? And what becomes of democracy if it is no longer informed by a moral and religious sensibility? Join me and Bishop Barron, as we discuss the gripping perils and hopeful potential of democracy.

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