{"id":3887,"date":"2026-07-24T21:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3887"},"modified":"2026-07-24T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T21:10:06","slug":"maga-bishop-threatens-lawsuit-after-critic-questions-his-crowd-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3887","title":{"rendered":"MAGA Bishop threatens lawsuit after critic questions his crowd size"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A popular MAGA-oriented Catholic Bishop sent a letter threatening legal action against one of his critics that revealed he shares more with President Donald Trump than politics. Like the Commander in Chief he supports, Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota is obsessed with crowd size. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3885\">Trump unveils a new scheme to seize more power<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is according to Christopher Hale, who writes the popular Letters from Theo blog where he provides commentary on the latest news regarding the Pope and Catholicism. On Friday, <u>Hale explained<\/u>, \u201cEarlier this week, a letter from the Washington law firm Cooper &amp; Kirk arrived in my inbox. The firm represents Word on Fire, Bishop Robert Barron\u2019s media company, and the subject line announced a \u2018NOTICE OF LEGAL ACTION.\u2019 The letter itself is something slightly less than the subject line advertises: a threat of one. The lawyers ask for a correction of a July 8 post of mine, which said that Barron\u2019s YouTube views had \u2018been on a nosedive during the past year of his MAGA conversion.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the letter,\u201d Hale elaborated, \u201cDavid H. Thompson of Cooper &amp; Kirk writes that Word on Fire\u2019s internal figures show the channel\u2019s viewership more than doubling over the past year, with subscriber growth up 85 percent, and warns of \u2018potential legal action\u2019 if I decline to correct the record. For legal authority, the letter leans on the Covington Catholic teenager\u2019s defamation suit against the New York Times \u2014 <u>a suit the teenager lost<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to Hale, what\u2019s really interesting is what isn\u2019t in the letter. As he wrote, \u201cAt no point does the letter ask me to retract the charge that gave my post its sting: that Bishop Barron has <u>gone full MAGA<\/u>. His lawyers dispute my arithmetic. The thesis of more than a year of reporting in this community \u2014 that America\u2019s most famous bishop has converted to Trumpism \u2014 apparently stands uncontested.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Barron, said Hale, has \u201cspent the summer falling deeper and deeper into the MAGA abyss,\u201d recently giving a softball interview to Vice President JD Vance. The Bishop was appointed to the White House Religious Liberty Commission, and <u>recently called<\/u> for breaking the separation between church and state. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3883\">Docs reveal Trump\u2019s shady justification for putting his face on the DOJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hale also suggested that there is something revealing about the Bishop\u2019s priorities, writing, \u201cTrump\u2019s April attack on Pope Leo earned from Barron a single statement of protest and then months of accommodation. An incorrect tweet about YouTube analytics, by contrast, summoned a Washington law firm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s relationship with Catholics has been fraught in recent months due to his <u>feud with the Pope<\/u> earlier in the year. This and other \u201cblasphemous\u201d behavior on his part has prompted some of the MAGA faithful to suggest Trump may be the \u201c<u>antichrist<\/u>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president also has a famous crowd size fixation that dates back to his first inauguration. This obsession was most recently on display during his 250th celebrations, when he reportedly \u201c<u>freaked out<\/u>\u201d over poor attendance. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=3881\">Federal judge issues massive blow to Trump\u2019s xenophobic project<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A popular MAGA-oriented Catholic Bishop sent a letter threatening legal action against one of his critics that revealed he shares more with President Donald Trump than politics. Like the Commander in Chief he supports, Bishop Robert Barron of Minnesota is obsessed with crowd size. 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