PopeWatch: Strickland

When one priest said they didn’t really ask about anything but focused on who would be a good replacement tells a lot.
If a Bishop can be disposed for going against their love of Covid vaccines, then one surely would be for adhering to faith.
🙏🏻
Someone in comments said Bishops shouldn’t criticize popes but they are brothers and the exact ones who criticize each other.

“Show me the good Bishop, I’ll show you the reasons for dismissal.”

Would that a million or two letters reach Rome immediately saying that if you lay one finger on this good man, no more $$$$$ for Rome or the USCCB.

[Fauci accepted job as professor at Georgetown. The president said he embodies the Jesuit value. How about that]

“[Fauci accepted job as professor at Georgetown. The president said he embodies the Jesuit value. How about that]”
Was he the president of Georgetown who covered over the crucifix fo Obama?
and
Pope Francis is having a visitation of Bishop Strickland for trying to prevent the scadalization of innocent little children. Bishop Strickland has worked tirelessly to prevent the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence from having a millstone tied about their necks and being drowned in the depths of the river for having scandalized the innocent little children.
Surely Pope Francis realizes that the scandalization of innocent little children carries the very heavy burden of death of the scandal’s soul in the depth of the river with a millstone about the neck or it would have been better if they had not been born, that is, procreated.
Transgenderism is an untruth as XX and XY chromosomes do not and cannot be changed… yet.
The soul of the person whole at creation forms the body of the person. Transgendering changes the body but denies the human being’s immortal, rational soul. Without acknowledging the human being’s immortal, rational soul, the human being becomes a chattel, slave or a lower animal to be enslaved, culled, propagated at another individual’s will while having one’s own will denied.

I have mixed feelings about this. While I think bishops publicly speaking out against the scandal that is Francis’ pontificate is long overdue, Bishop Strickland went about it in the wrong way. In his capacity as Bishop of Tyler, it would have been much better if he issued a pastoral letter explaining how calling out such a scandal would not be disobedient or disrespectful of the papal office, ala Paul to Peter. He has a list examples from here to eternity at his disposal to point out to make his case. Of course, this wouldn’t have prevented the Bergoglian Goon Squad in the Vatican from exacting their pound of flesh, but it would have been a far more clear and methodical, not to mention far less confusing, way to go about it.

Why didn’t he go this route as opposed to taking to Twitter the way he did? With the pastoral letter approach, he could have used social media to call attention to it and urge his brother bishops to do likewise. At the very least I suspect he did what he did because he wants to be seen as something of a pop star among the many orthodox Catholics who, while having a legitimate desire for courageous leadership, are far too gullible and vulnerable to grifters, to wit guys like Taylor Marshall. There’s a difference between wanting to LOOK LIKE an Athanasius and BEING an Athanasius.

This is the same Bishop Strickland who tweeted his support for Bp. Seitz’s uses of children as political props in defense of the criminal enterprise of illegal immigration, in protest of Trump Administration policies.

https://twitter.com/Bishopoftyler/status/1145712450324639745

Given that Strickland is a bishop in a border state, it’s that much worse.

And his support for Abp. Cordileone’s dishonest article in America Magazine about the death penalty.

https://twitter.com/bishopoftyler/status/1574025832837906433?s=21&t=GX3RdXLNxwg-ol5NYnZm6w

Strickland is correct about Pope Francis’ undermining Church teaching, but he engages in that too.