(LifeSiteNews) — Bishop Joseph Strickland told Tucker Carlson in an interview published Monday that the deaths of civilians in Gaza constitute “a holocaust of our time.”

When asked by Carlson why he weighed in on the expulsion of Carrie Prejean Boller from President Trump’s Religious Liberty Commission, Strickland said that he felt called to speak out against what he saw as Boller’s unjust treatment, after being challenged to do so by her.

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Boller was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission earlier this month for allegedly attempting to “hijack a hearing” for her “own personal and political agenda on any issue” after she engaged panelists in heated debate about Zionism, which she declared incompatible with Catholic teaching. Boller had also challenged panelists to condemn Israel’s conduct in its war against Hamas in Gaza.

Strickland affirmed to Carlson, “As you said, I think Carrie was removed because they didn’t like the truth she was speaking. The truth about Gaza, which is verboten by many. The innocents that have devastatingly died there is just horrible.”

READ: Bishop Strickland: Carrie Prejean Boller ‘has been treated unjustly’

“It truly is a holocaust of our time,” he added.

Strickland agreed with Carlson that the commission pushed back against the “agenda” of political Zionism and the idea that “Christians need to embrace” this ideology. 

On the contrary, the Catholic Church “is very clear” that Zionism is not a Christian idea, he pointed out.

The bishop shared that he contacted Boller to “offer her some support and some consolation” after she was removed from the Religious Liberty Commission. During their conversation, Boller asked him to publicly share his support for her.

“And I told her I would pray about it and I would consider it. But even as I told her that I would pray about it, I knew in my heart that … I was convicted.”

“I knew that if I was going to be the man I wanted to be, if I was going to be the Christian that I want to be, I had to speak up and to not attack anyone, but … basically say Carrie was removed from that committee because she was speaking truth.”

This story is developing…