Pope Francis has removed a popular conservative Bishop of a small Texas town, Bishop Joseph Strickland. One reason cited is that he has constantly criticized Pope Francis in the past months. He also criticizes Joe Biden. There was an investigation by two bishops Pope Francis selected but the results were not released.
It’s a very rare move. He immediately replaced him with Bishop Joe Vasquez of Austin.
According to an interview in the conservative website LifeSiteNews, Strickland believed one of the reasons given for his ouster was his refusal to implement Francis’ 2021 restrictions on the use of traditional Latin Mass.
Last year, when the Vatican defrocked ultra-conservative U.S. priest Frank Pavone for “blasphemous” social media posts and disobedience to bishops, Strickland had defended him publicly.
On Saturday, Francis removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Tyler, Texas, after he accused the Pope of “undermining the deposit of faith.”
Through social media, Strickland criticized Francis’s liberal views on same-sex marriage, abortion, and LGBTQ issues.
The Hill reports that In 2020, Strickland called the church “weak” and “not clear” and dared the pontiff to fire him, The National Catholic Reporter (NCR) said earlier this year.
The Associated Press reported Strickland criticized Francis’s recent meeting on hot-topic issues, including the integration of LGBTQ Catholics, the potential for female deacons, and access to the priesthood for married men.
Strickland spread anti-vaccine messages during the COVID-19 pandemic, while criticizing President Biden’s support for abortion rights, the NCR reported. In 2020, Strickland also voiced support for a controversial video that argued Catholics could not vote for Democrats in political elections.
Francis ordered two U.S. bishops to conduct an apostolic visitation to Strickland in June. The move came after complaints from priests and laypeople in Tyler about Strickland making unorthodox claims.
The head of the church in Texas, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, said Saturday the two bishops “conducted an exhaustive inquiry into all aspects of governance and leadership” by Strickland.
In other words, he wasn’t preaching the required political narrative.
Bishop Strickland posted this on X this afternoon.
“I pray that this effort is prayerful, respectful, and focused on Jesus. He is the only support I need, and I feel the profound embrace of His Sacred Heart. I appreciate the vigorous faith this is inspired by but please remember I am nothing, Jesus is everything. Viva Cristo Rey!”
Show your support for Bishop Strickland next Saturday in Tyler, Texas. pic.twitter.com/iD4bPLLlbc
— Fred Simon (@FredSimonTLM) November 12, 2023
If you’ve been taught to protect life, marriage is between a man and a woman, and priests should not marry, how do you suddenly buy into the opposite? That’s especially the case given Pope Francis is Marxist.
HIS REPLACEMENT
Bishop Joe Vasquez, a Mexican American, is supportive of illegal immigration as is Pope Francis.
As the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Migration, he was instrumental in the “Share the Journey” campaign, which was launched by Pope Francis. This campaign called for greater solidarity with migrants and refugees, aiming to break down barriers of fear and suspicion and foster understanding and hospitality. It involved more than 100 U.S. dioceses and included various activities such as special Masses, prayer vigils, and social media engagement to show solidarity with people on the move, many of whom were fleeing violence, terrorism, and disaster.
Vasquez is committed to global issues.
The problem with this thinking is people don’t suffer from fear and suspicion. They see massive illegal immigration without assimilation as destroying the nation and giving a totalitarian Democrat Progressive Party a permanent electoral majority.
Pope Francis has regularly eliminated the voices of conservatives in the religious order. He’s filled the College of Cardinals with leftists. He’s too political for a Pope. Maybe Bishop Strickland was too.
THE REASONS?
- The Latin Mass
- Undermining the deposit of faith
- Integration of LGBTQ Catholics, the potential for female deacons, abortion, and access to the priesthood for married men.
- Anti-vaccine and anti-Joe Biden messages
- Complaints
- Governance and leadership
- Integration with migrants [illegal aliens] and [fake] refugees, and global issues.
Liberalism has been in my Church longer than Francis. How do you think he got there.
God help us.
This is a fake pope using fake Christian doctrine. His handlers make up the clown show as they go on. It is deliberately outrageous. Purpose: to prepare the people for what is coming. Nothing Can Stop What Is Coming!
While I have issues with Bergolgio, the Catholic Church is the one True Faith established by Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior
I was raised Catholic and quit believing totally after the terrorist attacks in Paris a few years ago. Our local church/priest 3 weeks in a row (immediately after the terrorist attack) told us to feel compassion for the terrorists and try to “understand” them. They are human and deserve our love and prayers. NOPE! They don’t. And when the church told me I MUST love them and understand why they did what they did, I was done, and remain so. Aliens are Gods.
I stand with Bishop Strickland.
America was founded by Protestants, and even Deists, certainly not Catholics. How can you be loyal to the US Constitution and America if you have loyalty to some Marxist Pope? He’s “God’s chosen”? Really? The text of the Bible is clear. We don’t need some old codger in fancy robes interpreting it for us.
I see we have a dimwitted Pastor Billy Bob type. You know Maryland was a Catholic colony, and Catholic Charles Carroll was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Millions of Catholics have served our country. We have loyalty to God. BTW: The Holy Catholic Church is the only one TRUE Faith founded by Jesus Christ Our Lord and Savior. Your religion came centuries latter.
Let’s not share in the ignorance of some, by insulting Billy Bobs like me.
Idol worshippers
You are fool. Try reading about the one True Faith from Catholic sources.
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates
“The fool takes no delight in understanding, but rather in displaying what he thinks.” – Proverbs 18:2
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – Shakespeare
‘There are not more than one hundred people in the USA that hate the Catholic Church; there are millions who hate what they wrongly perceive the Catholic Church to be” – Archbishop Fulton Sheen ( then Monsignor) in 1938
Protestantism is made by man.Catholicism is the Word of God Incarnate. It will survive after the fake Pope installs by a Jesuit coup has been forgotten
Maryland was a catholic colony.
The Catholic church has been against freedom of the individual throughout its history. They supported the Nazis in WWII, hid their stolen wealth, moved them around the world after the war to ‘save’ them, and now there is an openly Marxist / Communist Pope. The ‘church’ as it were probably supports Hamas these days.
Your abysmal ignorance of the NAZI era is obvious. The semi-official church of NAzi Germany was the Lutheran Church whose bishops were approved by the Party. Catholics were persecuted, hunted and many expected for their active assistance in helping many Jews and other to escape the NAZI death camps.
Pope Benedict XVI “stepped down” prior to “Pope Francis?” The last Pope to “step down” was 600 years prior to Pope Benedict XVI. Why has this not been investigated. It appears that “Pope Francis” and his Marxist/communist views was installed. There needs to be an investigation of this Pope and the Vatican. If you were Satan and wanted to undermine the Catholic Church to aid in the ushering in of a communist NWO in America wouldn’t you follow this path?
Most conservative Catholics realize that Benefit did not “step down.”He was removed in a Jesuit coup who installed Francis. Francis has now packed the College of Cardinals with his ilk and it will take a militant operation to remove them. ArchBishop Vergano may very well establish a True Papacy very soon. We have to see how this new Synod works out.I expect a major schism in the Church. If you wish to hear ArchBishop Vergano his warnings are on YouTube.
At a time when our church and nation are in peril as well as the family structure priests like Bishop Strickland are invaluable; they are holding families together in moral values and right thinking against the “woke” perverseness that has taken hold of our children and our Nation. Francis has “put the nail in the coffin” of what is left of our Catholic church. God will bless Bishop Strictland for his trying to right so many of the wrongs Francis had done; we know God will use Bishop Strickland together with priests like Father Frank Pavone and others who are standing firm against what Francis is doing; they will mend our church and families. God bless you all.
St. Malachy sez he is the last poop
Fired for not being a gay commie.
That sums it up.
I am amazed at the huge number of people who follow and support a ‘church’ that is little more than a secular business, so often squashing those who try to ‘get back to the Bible’.
Believing and practicing Catholics are amazed at Protestants who have abandoned the only church established by Jesus, a church that Jesus promised that hell itself would never prevail against. Practicing and believing Catholics are also amazed that Protestants rely on the doctrine of sola scriptura, a practice that has resulted in 40,000+ Protestant sects, all of which maintain THEY have the one, true interpretation of Biblical teaching.
Return to the one true church, the Catholic church. Pope Francis and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi will not prevail against the deposit of faith, nor will left wing priests and theologians, and for that I have the promise of the Son of God. Good enough for me, good enough for saints like Padre Pio, and yes, it’s in the Bible.
Your “40000 +” denominations is a lie often repeated by Catholics too lazy to actually check out the facts. And each of the “deniminations” does not make the claim of having THE one truth. Some do. Just like the Catholic church does. Most don’t. Jesus railed over and over against the Jews for allowing tradition to supercede scripture. Just exactly what the RCC has done. “It’s in the bible”. Where? Where is praying to Mary, angels, or saints in the bible? Where is bowing before a symbol or statue in the bible–except in an idolatrous way? What does the bible say about forbidding to marry?
Every one of your “objections” to Catholicism can be refuted by any properly catechized Catholic. Likewise, you could find the answers to your objections in about two seconds on the internet. But to save time, I’ll ask you just a few simple questions that I’m sure you can answer:
Your book was written by men over vast periods of time and are continually being revised/rewritten. And of course, like all religions, Catholics claim that THEIR God is they only true God, all other Gods are “false Gods”. So isn’t that like the pot calling the kettle black since every single religion has a God, and there are thousands of Gods/religions. Nothing holy about a book written by men.
All scripture is God breathed!
You really are an ignorant fool. There are not other words.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” Socrates
“The fool takes no delight in understanding, but rather in displaying what he thinks.” – Proverbs 18:2
“A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – Shakespeare
I was an altar boy and a favorite among the nuns who taught he. They would be outraged at this church now.
You wrote a bunch of sophistry. Is the communist fake pope’s NWO in the good book?
Matthew 16
Amen!
Catholics have the same Bible as Protestants, but with the apocrypha included as commentary, which even Catholics admit are not part of the divine canon of Scripture. Those Catholics who believe what you’re claiming about Catholics being the church Jesus established ignores what their own Bible says about the church…assuming they’ve ever read it…because it contradicts those claims.
You are spouting what you”ve heard from Catholic traditions, which are neither sacred nor holy, not from the divine canon. As Jesus said of the Pharisees, they “taught as doctrine the precepts of men.” There is no such thing as “the only church established by Jesus,” since Jesus established no “church.” Paul established church order, not Peter. The very word church simply means a gathering of believers, not an institution.
Peter was never the Pope nor did he exercise authority over believers. And the “Rock” upon which Jesus would build his church was NEVER Peter. “Jesus said, You are Peter (meaning little stone), and upon this Rock (different Greek word…a boulder…not pebble Peter) I will build my church.” The rock was never Peter nor his substitute as a pope (which the one you have now seems demonic…like Hitler’s Pope). The Rock upon which the church (body of Christ) is built is the confession Peter had just made of who Jesus is. And Protestants are amazed that Catholics don’t know this.
The Bible the Protestants have is not the same as the Catholics, as the Protestants removed some of the books the Catholic Bible still has, so it is NOT the same.
You do realize that that the first Holy Bible was published the Holy Catholic Church in 380Ad while Protestants published their bible sans the 6 books 1200 years later.
You learned about Catholicism from Protestants. Every day at every Mass, we read the old and New Testament, so right there you started off wrong, “assuming they’ve ever read it.” Oh, and it was just a coincidence that the name Peter means rock. Hmm! And who was our Lord and Savior giving the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven? He said, “I will give “you” not “it” or “they.” You just don’t want to admit you’ve been wrong but that pride may just jeopardize your soul. You do the typical talking points of most Protestants and not one of you has read the Catholic catechism. Who do you think assembled the Bible so you could read it? Go look that up.
BEAUTIFULLY SAID
Mortar and wood don’t make a church…. nor does money. and idols.
Try learning about the one True Faith – the Holy catholic Church – from Catholics, preferable pre-V2 because you sound like an ignorant fool.
That is a bunch of sophistry. You were unable to address the many problems in our church which drove us away. The fake pope is evil. Padre Pio is long gone.
Have faith because the prophesies told us about smoke of Stan invading the Church, the ape of the Church, and the Church, the Bride of Christ, undergoing Her Passion; like Her Bridegroom, Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Mother Church will enter even more glorious than ever.Bergoglio’s parents were Marxists, and he is connected to evil World Economic Forum.
These evil clerics Judases will suffer with Judas.
Pray daily the Holy Rosary
Why still be Catholic?
https://www.markmallett.com/blog/why-still-be-a-catholic/
I’m amazed at the huge number of people that follow any church. All they want is your weekly payment and for you to follow their edicts, which now are turning woke woke woke. If the ‘church’ was actually honest, they wouldn’t be removing, rewriting, inserting, etc. chapters of the Bible to suit their current interests, but they do. Read the Book of Enoch (removed) because of it’s historical content, then you will be enlightened.
Where do you get this crap? You know the Holy Catholic Church – the only True Faith and the only Christian religion until 1517A.D., published the FIRST Holy Bible in 380AD. The Protestants printed their Holy Bible 1200 years later.
A false teacher or profit, whatever you want to call it; if there ever was one.
This pope has done nothing, but to lead people astray from the truth.
PROPHET
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