I am in this Diocese and had to go to our parish office today. I have been away for awhile and asked the clerk what the feeling is among the parishioners. She said sadness. And asked me to pray hard for this upstanding leader. While discussing this, she just looked at the floor while shaking her head side-by-side.
I have personally been at meetings with Bishop Strickland long ago when he was a priest in Tyler, TX., and I was a local prayer president at our church. He left one feel how holy he was in his vocation. This is beyond comprehension what happened to him.