Strickland brings up a call he made on X (formerly Twitter) to pray for the priest and the lesbians involved, as they are “caught in a fog of darkness that is not the Catholic Church,” and that they need to be corrected for their own sake, even if they likely won’t be. He also says that it is “infuriating” since the blessing contradicts the explanations given by the Vatican for Fiducia Supplicans, namely that the blessings are not “liturgical” and should be no longer than fifteen seconds. However, Strickland opines that the final point of the matter is that someone is lying.“Somebody’s lying,” he asserts. “And for the faithful of the Church, for any of us to just roll over and say, ‘Well, they’re saying this but doing that and contradicting themselves,’ we don’t need to stand for it. We need to say, ‘Either you’re confusing further explanation of this document is not the truth, or this needs to be corrected,’ but it won’t be corrected because this really points out what their intention was: ‘We’ll lull people into a complacency, and then we’ll allow sin to be blessed.’”