Bishop blasts new abortion law as 'worst kind of barbarism'
Robert Barron, the Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, spoke out against the state’s new abortion law last week following the law’s signature by Governor Tim Walz.
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Robert Barron, the Bishop of Winona-Rochester, Minnesota, spoke out against the state’s new abortion law last week following the law’s signature by Governor Tim Walz.
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