The Pillar has a long article quoting Bishop Strickland and the recent visitation to his diocese.
I think there is more to this than meets the eye. We have to remember that a bishop at his ordination promises respect and obedience to the pope directly just as a priest promises the same to his bishop at the priest’s ordination.
We have bishops critiquing this pope just as we’ve had bishops critiquing and complaining about John Paul II and Benedict XVI during their reigns. There’s nothing new under the sun. During John Paul II and Benedict XVI, heterodox bishops were removed but others who were highly critical of them were left in place.
If there are major administrative issues in the diocese not properly addressed by the bishop or he has caused them, the people of the diocese deserve some kind of “higher” intervention. If the bishop is heterodox, the same hold true. This should be applied to all bishops, including the Bishop or Rome, although there is no recourse to the latter.
But here’s the Pillar’s good article. They do an excellent job at reporting btw!
4 comments:
Poor Bishop Strickland is building his own scaffold.
Indeed! A great way to say it!
Agree with rcg.
"Paki i Paki", "again and again" conformity to ideology seeks to prevail.
Perhaps he will be deemed "fiscally irresponsible", or will suddenly become "sick", he just doesn't know it yet.
Only in a corrupt Hierarchy is he building his own scaffold.
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