WILL BISHOP STRICKLAND BE NEXT? TIME WILL TELL…
From the Deacon’s Bench:
KNOXVILLE’S BISHOP STIKA RESIGNS
From NCR: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Bishop Richard Stika, the embattled leader of the Diocese of Knoxville,
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The cases are different: Stika has a very strange modus operandi, Strickland is what every bishop should be: a lion for the Faith. In a just world, bishops like Cupich, Gregory, and McElroy would be working in a car wash alongside McCarrick.
The Pillar's article three days ago presented mixed opinions of Bishop Strickland.
From The Pillar:
"Acknowledging the bishop’s penchant for controversy, one source close to Strickland told The Pillar that the bishop is confident about the visitation.
“The bishop doesn’t want to make too big of a deal of it,” the source said. “He’s got vocations, the diocese is doing well financially, so by all the numbers, he’s doing very well.”
Conversely, one source, identified as a priest, declared:
One priest interviewed said the visitation’s questions focused on Strickland’s administrative leadership in the diocese, rather than on his outsized social media personality.
“It was not even primarily about his ‘rants’ about Pope Francis,” said the priest, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak on the record.
“The questions really focused on years of governance issues, which have had us priests concerned.”
Pax.
Mark Thomas
The Pillar reported:
"One priest interviewed said the visitation’s questions focused on Strickland’s administrative leadership in the diocese, rather than on his outsized social media personality.
“It was not even primarily about his ‘rants’ about Pope Francis,” said the priest..."
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Conversely, Mike Lewis reported:
"Based on what I have heard from priests questioned by the visitation, my impression is that Bishop Strickland is primarily being investigated as a result of that tweet."
In regard to tweet in question, Bishop Strickland said of Pope Francis that "it is time for me to say that I reject his program of undermining the Deposit of Faith."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Bishop Strickland is orthodox, so of course our lefty Pope would focus on him instead of the evil in the Vatican. What did he do about the Vatican clerics engaged in a cocaine fueled gay sex orgy? Nothing. Yet the bootlicker still worships him
Bishop Strickland is orthodox, so of course our lefty Pope would focus on him instead of the evil in the Vatican. What did he do about the Vatican clerics engaged in a cocaine fueled gay sex orgy? Nothing. Yet the bootlicker still worships him
Here is a must read from Rorate Caeli:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2023/06/traditionis-custodes-and-streisand.html
the money quote:
"Even more intriguing was to contemplate this pontiff who has made mercy his watchword singling out for censure an insignificant group without being able to justify his restrictions except with vague accusations and suspicions without proof; to observe how a pope particularly fond of diversity, anxious to bring together more or less distant religions, took the trouble to denounce a perfectly orthodox group of the Catholic faithful. God, it seems, wants a plurality of religions, but not of rites.
Even more: the Catholic reader was perplexed by the justification of "unity," when he, or any of the practicing faithful, can see that the rite of the Novus Ordo Mass varies enormously from one parish to another, with flagrant liturgical abuses that few denounce anymore and that never provoke Rome's response. And even more so, repealing a motu proprio that was promulgated only fourteen years earlier, by a Pope who was still alive and inhabiting the same city."
The braindead will not understand what I posted!
Mike Lewis has written an article that has traced Bishop Strickland's rise from an "obscure," non-controversial figure, to one who has attacked Pope Francis, as well as having promoted conspiracy theories.
-- The making of Bishop Strickland
https://wherepeteris.com/the-making-of-bishop-strickland/
Mike Lewis noted the following interesting fact in regard to Bishop Strickland:
"Until the summer of 2018, most American Catholics had likely never heard of the Diocese of Tyler, let alone Bishop Strickland.
"But soon after the disgraced former nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò issued his “testimony” against Pope Francis in August of that year, Strickland wrote a letter to his priests, stating that he found Viganò’s claims “credible” and ordered them “to include this notice in the masses on August 26, and post it on their websites and other social media immediately.”
"By November he was getting himself noticed for his public comments at the microphone during the USCCB’s open floor debate and giving sit-down media interviews."
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His attachment to Archbishop Viganò resulted in Bishop Strickland's radicalization.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Archbishop Vigano is “disgraced” in your leftwing, fevered mind. You are unfit to polish his shoes. Jesus Christ was considered a radical by the establishment of his time because he was counter-cultural, so Bishop Strickland is in good company by walking in his Master’s footsteps. Do you think, at all?
Here's the next bishop who will be cancelled by Ming the Merciful:
Bishop Schneider for pointing out the obvious, of course it requires a brain to understand this:
https://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-prohibition-of-traditional-latin.html
The money quote:
"The prohibition of the traditional Latin Mass is an abuse of ecclesiastical power and noncompliance with its prohibition does not in fact constitute disobedience"
In regard to Bishop Strickland:
It is interesting that right-wing news media outlets have referenced priests in the Diocese of Tyler (Texas) as their sources for the following:
The right-wing news media outlets have reported that priests in Tyler have expressed concern in regard to Bishop Strickland's management of the Diocese of Tyler.
The news media outlets are not liberal. The news media outlets in question are right-wing.
That is very telling.
It is clear that his disgraceful comments (not to mention his attachment to conspiracy theories) aimed at Pope Francis are not the only issue in regard Bishop Strickland.
Bishop Strickland made the horrific mistake of having thrown in with disgraced Archbishop Viganò. That marked the beginning of Bishop Strickland's radicalization.
Within just a couple of hours of his initial "testimony," Archbishop Viganò's lies had been exposed. Nevertheless, Bishop Strickland had thrown in with Archbishop Viganò.
In massive waves, Archbishop Viganò's initial supporters abandoned the disgraced Archbishop.
The "V is for Viganò" folks embarrassed themselves initially. But they at least had the sense to have distanced themselves from Archbishop Viganò.
Conversely, Bishop Strickland's radicalization has deepened.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
Says a leftwing fake Catholic
TJM,
I took a break from this blog for a while and I think I'm going to take a longer one. Same old arguments, same idiocy, no one's mind changed. I'd rather watch Kung Fu reruns.
Jerome Merwick,
Except I doubt the one poster has a mind
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