 In 2020, Rodney Howard-Browne, a Pentecostal pastor in Florida, was arrested for holding church services and claiming that his church's ministry was "essential" and should not be shut down during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.Another Pentecostal pastor, Tony Spell in Louisiana, was charged with six misdemeanor counts after holding church services in Central, Louisiana when the governor had issued an order against gatherings of ten or more people.John Higham described anti-Catholicism as "the most luxuriant, tenacious tradition of paranoiac agitation in American history".