“… Barron, who serves as a commissioner on the religious liberty panel, echoed Cordileone and said Catholics are increasingly being pushed out of health care and social services.

“I think they want us out of health care,” he said. “They want us out of education.”

The bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, said that for a long time, religious leaders articulated their mission in terms of love, which he defined, citing St. Thomas Aquinas, as “to will the good of the other.” He said that as the faith has been pushed out of public life, religious leaders “have become more reticent” to express the Church’s position publicly.

“We’ve got to come forward in the public space, articulate what is the human good. I think we’ve become more reticent, and we’ve succumbed to the pressures from the secular ideology,” he said. “We’ve got to keep articulating what the good is, because otherwise we won’t know what love really is.”

President Donald Trump established the Religious Liberty Commission in 2025 to advise the White House on threats to religious freedom and ways to strengthen religious liberty protections in the United States. A coalition of multifaith advocacy groups, including the Interfaith Alliance, Muslims for Progressive Values, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Hindus for Human Rights, have sued to challenge the commission’s creation, arguing its membership is overwhelmingly Christian and not “fairly balanced” as required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

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