Bishop Barron at Religious Liberty hearing warns of ‘dictatorship of relativism’

Bishop Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota. / Credit: “EWTN News Nightly”/Screenshot Washington D.C., Jun 17, 2025 / 17:56 pm (CNA). During the first hearing of President Donald Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, Bishop Robert Barron echoed Pope Benedict XVI’s warning against the “dictatorship of relativism” encroaching on American society. Barron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, said at the June 16 hearing that “religion is being attacked in our society” and referenced a homily given by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in…