We Need a National Examination of Conscience

Friends, the appalling events in Washington DC today are a disturbing sign of a breakdown in our democratic system and compel us to a national examination of conscience regarding the civic life of this country. (I encourage you watch the talk I offered last year to a bipartisan group of Senators, Representatives, and Capitol Hill staffers about political life as a vocation, the relationship of the Divine Law to positive law, and the call of justice: https://youtu.be/-7KlaUIdWR4)