Posted on 11/11/2023 1:48:09 PM PST by ebb tide
Editor’s Note: The following is the official English statement from Bishop Athanasius Schneider, auxiliary of Astana, Kazakhstan, in response to the news that Pope Francis has removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from his Diocese of Tyler. A Spanish version can be found here.
(LifeSiteNews) –– “The one charge which is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.” These words of St. Basil (Ep. 243) can most aptly illustrate the deposition of the Bishop of Tyler, Texas, U.S.A., His Excellency Joseph E. Strickland.
The deposition of Bishop Joseph E. Strickland signifies a black day for the Catholic Church of our day.
READ: Pope Francis personally removes America’s Bishop Joseph Strickland
We are witnessing a blatant injustice towards a bishop who did his duty in preaching and defending with parrhesia the immutable Catholic faith and morals and in promoting the sacredness of the liturgy, especially in the immemorial traditional rite of the Mass.
All understand, and even the declared enemies of this Confessor Bishop, that the accusations brought against him are ultimately insubstantial and disproportionate and were used as a welcome opportunity to silence an uncomfortable prophetic voice within the Church.
What happened to the bishops during the Arian crisis in the 4th century, who were deposed and exiled only because they intrepidly preached the traditional Catholic Faith, is again happening in our day.
At the same time several bishops, who publicly support heresy, liturgical abuses, gender ideology and openly invite their priests to bless same-sex couples, are not in the least importuned or sanctioned by the Holy See.
Bishop Strickland will probably go down in history as an “Athanasius of the Church in the USA,” who however, unlike St. Athanasius, is not persecuted by the secular power, but incredibly by the Pope himself. It seems that a kind of “purge” of bishops, who are faithful to the immutable Catholic Faith and the Apostolic discipline, and which has been going on already for some time, has reached now a decisive phase.
May the sacrifice, which Our Lord asked from Bishop Strickland, bear plenty spiritual fruits for time and eternity. Bishop Strickland and other faithful bishops, who were already asked to resign, who are currently marginalized or who will be the next in the row, should say in all sincerity to Pope Francis:
Holy Father, why are you persecuting and beating us? We tried to do what all holy Popes asked us to do? With fraternal love we offer the sacrifice of this kind of persecution and exile for the salvation of your soul and for the good state of the Holy Roman Church. Indeed, we are your best friends, Most Holy Father!
+ Athanasius Schneider, Auxiliary Bishop of Saint Mary in Astana
Ping
Bergoglio serves his master, Satan.
It seems to me that the world has rapidly swirled down the sewer ever since Bergoglio installed that ugly, obscene South American idol. Remember: he committed that heinous act of idolatry just a few months before the Wuhanic Plague appeared. We can talk about Fauci, and gross malfeasance by the WEF, the WHO, the CDC, the President, pfizer, Moderna, etc and rightly so ... but the greatest malfeasance was committed by Bergoglio.
BTW, I do not mention the name of that ugly obscene idol ... few people had ever heard of it (or the demon it represents) before Bergoglio’s scandalous conduct. It shouldn’t get any attention after.
This disgusting POS is a Communist, and a Revolting one at that
Matthew
23 Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You
are a stumbling block to me; you do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
Hard to disagree with you.
I’m of the same opinion as you on the precipitating cause of this current mass insanity. Idol worship by a pope! God is not mocked. He apparently has left us to our own devices and the devil is having his way with us for a time.
The ANTI-POPE is a small minded heretic!
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