Catholic Mean Girl Carrie Prejean Boller in Twitter Fight with Bishop Robert Barron

Get in, loser: we’re going to a Twitter fight.

Catholic Convert and Former Miss California Carrie Prejean Boller gained prominence after her antics at a White House Religious Liberty Commission meeting last month prompted her removal from the body. When the subsequent March meeting took place, Boller took to Twitter/X claiming that she faced “anti-Catholic” discrimination and called upon Catholic Diocese of Winona–Rochester Bishop Robert Barron, who sits on the commission, to defend her. After repeated demands that he “speak up,” Barron responded, but rather than submit to the authority of the Bishop, Boller began a social media campaign critical of him.

Boller routinely presents herself as a model representative of Catholicism. It’s hard to think of anything less Catholic than to brazenly ignore the public correction of one of the most well-known and respected Catholic bishops and to start a social media campaign against him. But that is what Boller, Catholic for less than a year, has done.

As a new Catholic, I would like to believe that if I faced open rebuke from a bishop, it would both humble me and temper my actions online. I would not take to Twitter to discuss the contents, always hinted at but never fully revealed, of private correspondence with him. In one tweet, Boller provided a screenshot of an email she sent to the bishop asking, “Do you really want to stick with this story, Your Excellency?”

It was in response to her requests for comment that Barron wrote:

“Over the past several weeks, Carrie Prejean Boller has complained that she was removed from the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty because of her Catholic beliefs, and she has called out myself and other Catholic members of the commission for not defending her. This is absurd. Mrs. Prejean Boller was not dismissed for her religious convictions but rather for her behavior at a gathering of the Commission last month: browbeating witnesses, aggressively asserting her point of view, hijacking the meeting for her own political purposes. The Catholic position on matters of ‘Zionism,’ to which I fully subscribe, is as follows: all forms of antisemitism are to be unequivocally condemned; the state of Israel has a right to exist; but the modern nation of Israel does not represent the fulfillment of Biblical prophecies and hence does not stand beyond criticism. If Mrs. Prejean Boller were dismissed for holding these beliefs, it is difficult to understand why I am still a member of the Commission. To paint herself as a victim of anti-Catholic prejudice or to claim that her religious liberty has been denied is simply preposterous.”

This reply was deemed insufficient by Boller, who feels that Catholics cannot in any capacity offer support for the State of Israel.

Determined to make “fetch” happen, she followed up with multiple tweets. In one, she lays out what she claims to be Catholic theology on the subject of Israel, as though Barron needed to be educated by her. She concludes the tweet:

“As a successor to the Apostles, it is important that you provide clarity. I’d appreciate you taking it from here, I really would love to go back to cooking, planting, and being a wife and mother.”

Yes, we are to believe that, like Washington, she, too, would like to retire from her service under her own “vine and fig tree,” but alas, duty impels her forward. Or at least, clicks and notoriety do. Those she has steadily gained since the commission, and in picking a fight with Barron, who, being far more prominent than she, was no doubt helpful in this cause.

If only she had let His Excellency “take it from here,” but no, she replied to his tweet in support of the people of Iran, instructing, “Now say this,” and provided a script of what his response should be.

Catholic for less than a year, she now insists that a bishop of the church use her talking points.

Along with her own, Boller has shared re-tweets of others and their criticism of Barron. This, of course, encourages more people to do so in the hope that they too will be recognized. Boller re-tweeted support from E. Michael Jones, who termed Barron’s statement “scandalous.” Jones, a known antisemite, has at times both denied and justified the Holocaust. She shared another post from Sr. Sophie Marie, who did not name Barron specifically but argued that Catholics only have to submit to the authority of the bishops when “they are in communion with the Vicar of Christ.” Boller even tweeted from an account that accused Barron of ignoring abuse victims, which Boller was then compared to.

All this comes after she claimed last week that Daily Wire host Andrew Klavin, who speaks regularly about his faith, “doesn’t know Jesus” in response to his criticism of Papal pacifism. Klavan, who is a practicing Christian, is of Jewish descent.

In the midst of her fight with Barron, Boller has been tweeting her thanks to Pope Leo XIV for his statements on Gaza, as if he needs her validation.

Significantly, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who is also a seated member of the Religious Liberty Commission, made a statement today stating his agreement with Barron’s comments on Boller.

Below is a statement that my brother bishop, @BishopBarron – a colleague on the Presidential Commission on Religious Liberty –recently issued. His comments are characteristically clear, and I agree wholeheartedly. https://t.co/lvKMD2haQU

— Cardinal Dolan (@CardinalDolan) March 24, 2026

Will Barron be affected by this campaign? Not in the long run. But, Boller continues to act against her own spiritual best interests and the spiritual well-being of those who follow her. Those observing Lent should prepare our hearts to receive our Resurrected Lord; we should also be reflecting on our own failings. But Boller is devoting her energies to engage in behavior mirroring the worst stereotypes of the pageant circuit rather than penitent behavior for devout Catholics. Far more notable Catholics have humbled themselves and submitted to the church’s authority, and all of us should learn from them.

There is a proper way for the laity to ask for clarity or even to disagree with Church leaders, but conducting a high school Twitter fight isn’t it.

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