The man known informally as “The Bishop of the Internet” used his massive online platform Tuesday to condemn the nationwide response to the incident involving students of a Catholic high school in Kentucky.

Bishop Robert Barron — who has more than 1.5 million likes on his official page on Facebook and 120,000 Twitter followers — called the quick and sharp criticism of students at Kentucky’s Covington Catholic High School “satanic.”

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