Interview · 17 Jul 2026
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy
Video: YouTube: Bishop Robert Barron (official channel). Retrieved 3 Oct 2026.
Mostly straight talkProvisional
334 sentences · 6 checked claims · 27 questions
What makes up this item's score
DefinitionsAccuracy67%
Checked claims that hold upadds 16.7 of 50.0
Partly supported“a majority of American women right if you actually look at the data what most American young moms say that they want is that they want to spend a little bit more time with their kids when the kids are young but they also want to have access to their career”
Interview, 17 Jul 2026 · Pew Research Center · Institute for Family Studies
Partly supported“you will hear politicians on the other side say things like, well, you know, abortion is really good because if you didn't have abortion, then you'd have way too many women who weren't able to join the workforce.”
Interview, 17 Jul 2026 · CNN · Roll Call
Supported“You don't want to wake up in a country as we did in late 2020 where our doctors didn't have enough hospital gowns and hospital masks because of the supply disruptions.”
Interview, 17 Jul 2026 · Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) · American Journal of Infection Control (Elsevier/ScienceDirect)
Supported“Bill Clinton famously said the era of big government is over”
Interview, 17 Jul 2026 · Clinton White House archive (National Archives) · Deseret News
Supported“if you go back to that that Democratic party in the 1980s and I actually talk about this I think some in the book that you know religious identification religious attendance both Republicans and Democrats were equally Christian.”
Interview, 17 Jul 2026 · Ryan Burge, Graphs About Religion (GSS analysis) · Larry M. Bartels, Vanderbilt University
Not supported“go to the US Congress and ask yourself what Democrats under 50 came out of the black church, the answer may be none.”
Interview, 17 Jul 2026 · Texas Tribune via News From The States · The Texas Tribune
Answers questions100%
Questions answered straightadds 0.0 of 50.0
AnsweredQ: “I'm just eager to talk to you about a lot of things, but especially your new book, Communion, which is terrific and a great followup to Hillbilly Eleg…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “You know, to me, it's interesting because I'm focusing there on the on the confessions narrative, but the city of God, the principal theme of which I …”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “You know, Paul Tillik, the Protestant theologian, who was a great devil tape Augustine, said that. He [clears throat] said, "All you need to know abou…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “What I, you know, gathered from your book very strongly and it's a standard bit of the spiritual tradition is that makes you a complete slave of the o…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Tell me more about Gerard. You know, I had the chance to meet him toward the end of his career. He came to Mundeline Seminary to give a series of lect…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “you know, Girar and and your friend Peter Teal as well. And we'll talk, frankly, about the demonic element. Yes. The devil is two great names in the B…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “It can turn like that. It's a subtle thing which is why you need prayer and spiritual direction a lot in your life because you can be going this path.…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Yeah. I think it's the central thing and you know we bishops wrestle with a lot because we're trying to teach the Catholic social uh doctrine and of c…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Yeah. And you know, it's we can stay at the high level of abstraction and and we tend to agree at that level. when you get down to cases, okay, in thi…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “and conversation is essential to and not just kind of exchanging invective at a high level of abstraction because at the high level abstraction we ten…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “Stay stay with Francis for a minute because I think that document late in his papacy called Dignitas Infinita. Yeah. Is one of the best summaries of C…”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
AnsweredQ: “And he's the Lord of your life, the whole of your life.”
Conversation with Bishop Robert Barron on political philosophy, 17 Jul 2026 · video
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3 emotional passages labelled, 0 flagged as deflecting. Needs 20.
How the number is built
16.7 + 0.0 = 16.7Bluff = 50 × (1 − Accuracy 67%) = 16.7
Spin = 50 × (1 − Answers questions 100%) = 0.0
BS Index = Bluff + Spin = 16.7 → shown as 17
The same fixed weights for everyone. Consistency and Substance are shown alongside, never in the number.
The record
The Vice President and I Discuss Political Philosophy. YouTube: Bishop Robert Barron (official channel), 17 Jul 2026. Open the video · hash and fetch details