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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 6h

Just checking in on my brilliant peers

Eric Metaxas
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Oct 25
CONTEXT: Islamic radicals have murdered innocents for 1,300 years. So yeah, we're so sorry Madani's aunt chose to ride a bus IN HER HIJAB because NYers thought she might murder them for a few weeks after her co-religionists murdered 3,000 in "the name of Allah".
Greg Price
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Oct 24
Zohran through tears: "My aunt stopped taking the subway after 9/11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab."
Yes, she was the real victim of 9/11
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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 11h

I feel that maintaining open lines of communication and engaging in dialogue with Beelzebub constitute the most constructive way forward.

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 15h

Zohran Mamdani’s socialism violates Catholic Social Teaching, full stop. On the other side, should billionaires be allowed to buy elections? Well, friends, this is a matter of prudence

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 17h

Friends, it is with great concern that I address the rise of dictatorship in our time. As the great Pope Benedict XVI so aptly put it, it is the dictatorship of relativism

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 19h

Amigos, I assure you: the Church stands with every human made in the image of God and carrying papers

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve been enjoying the new Star Wars series, Andor. As I watch the rebels heroically take on the cold machine of the Empire, I can’t help but think of modern-day iconoclasts like my friend Jordan Peterson

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

Should the most prominent Catholic cleric in the country be out on the front lines of peaceful protest demanding humane treatment for immigrants and refugees? Friends, as the great Bob Dylan once said, the answer is blowing in the wind

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

Should the most prominent Catholic cleric in the country be out on the front lines of peaceful protest demanding humane treatment for immigrants and refugees? Friends, as the great Bob Dylan once said, the answer is blowing in the wind

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

As I preached a few weeks ago, of all the forms of human dysfunction we find in Scripture the one that cries out most to God is indifference to the poor. This is why I befriend those in power and in media whose attitude toward the poor amounts to a positive hostility

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

In a nation where the President and Vice President, 87% of Congress, and 8/9 of the Supreme Court identify as Christians, one must search with acute vigilance to pinpoint the subtle but very real intrusions of anti-Christian bias

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, I grew up a few miles from where the Broadview facility is now allegedly depriving people of food, water, and medical treatment. Since this falls outside my jurisdiction in Winona-Rochester, I will withhold comment. I want to talk today about the spiritual decline of Europe

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

Throughout our nation there is a vast, aggressive bureaucratic apparatus comprising fellow Americans who get up every day and tear families apart. They are called teachers, and they are using pronouns without parental consent

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

The imagery of U.S. military power as Pete Hegseth prays that most sacred of Christian prayers may not attain to the heights of a commentary by, say, St. Gregory of Nyssa, but what a visceral reminder of the warfare we must wage against the spiritual powers of darkness

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, I grew up a few miles from where the Broadview facility is now allegedly depriving people of food, water, and medical treatment. Since this falls outside my jurisdiction in Winona-Rochester, I will withhold comment. I want to talk today about the spiritual decline of Europe

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

It was a great honor to be interviewed by Tucker Carlson. His recent interview with a feisty up-and-coming Catholic who called J.D. Vance a “fat, gay, race traitor that married a jeet” illustrates the dynamic intellectual diversity of the right

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

As we at Word on Fire informed Commonweal Magazine, we consider it slander to be in any way associated with Donald Trump.

Bishop Barron, left, definitely not associating with President Trump, right.

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

From Gaza to the United States, children are being subjected to hunger and state violence. What an opportunity to be initiated into an askesis which, as the great St. John of the Cross reminds us, frees us from the enslavement of the ego!

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

I find it deeply gratifying, having spent my life steeped in Augustine, Aquinas, Dante, and Shakespeare, to be numbered among the great religious minds of our time, such as Paula White, Eric Metaxas, and Phil McGraw

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

Friends, certain of my critics say I provide a “shallow intellectual veneer” to a “vulgar fascism.” But would a shallow veneer use phrases like “incurvatus in se”?

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 4d

Friends, the gilded ballroom offers us a foretaste of heaven, where the dance of Trinitarian love will gleam in streets of gold and there will be no poor people

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 3d

Friends, Vice President Vance has made some remarks about Haitians and other immigrants that I may not agree with, but he has also done something far more significant, which is to bring theological Latin phrases into mainstream discourse

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 3d

Friends, as a member of the Religious Liberty Commission I am watching the Body of Christ be denied to Catholic detainees, and inspired by the great twentieth-century Trappist Thomas Merton I am meeting this moment with the most powerful tool in the contemplative’s arsenal: silence.

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

Throughout the centuries, the great Christian martyrs have filled up the treasury of merit by their courageous witness. I’m thrilled to announce that you can now take up their mantle by purchasing the Word on Fire bitcoin, Crypt Currency™

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

Friends, Christianity has always been a religion of speaking truth to power. Go back to the Old Testament prophets, St. Joan of Arc, St. Thomas More. But what does this mean in our current context? I would argue that it means going to campuses and yelling at college kids

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Bishop Robber Baron @bishoprobberbaron.bsky.social · 2d

I have often said: lead with Beauty. Lead with Bach, lead with Dante’s great Commedia, lead with Chartres

The Lincoln Bathroom in the White House, post-renovation. Donald J. Trump/Truth Social, via CNN

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