WOF 547 | Fraud: a Scourge on the Common Good

Bishop Robert Barron discusses the impact of fraud on the common good in the latest episode of the Word on Fire Show. Host Matthew Petrusek notes that the U.S. Government Accountability Office estimates annual taxpayer losses to fraud range from $233 billion to $521 billion.

The program addresses how the theft of public funds affects vulnerable populations through the defrauding of programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Barron provides a Catholic social thought perspective on why the plundering of public coffers constitutes a grave social injustice.