Appointing a bishop who holds such views to shepherd a major archdiocese is a source of scandal and division. The faithful deserve clarity, not ambiguity; fidelity, not experimentation.
The new Archbishop of Brisbrane, Shane Mackinlay
Posted on 06/19/2025 4:44:09 PM PDT by ebb tide
Editor’s note: The following was originally published on Bishop Joseph Strickland’s X account on June 18, 2025.
(LifeSiteNews) — With deep concern for the faithful of the Church, I feel compelled to address the recent appointment of Bishop Shane Mackinlay as Archbishop of Brisbane by His Holiness Pope Leo XIV.
While we owe filial respect and obedience to the Holy Father in matters properly within his authority, this appointment raises serious pastoral and doctrinal questions.
Bishop Mackinlay has publicly expressed support for the possibility of ordaining women to the diaconate – a position that not only introduces grave confusion but directly challenges the consistent teaching and tradition of the Catholic Church. As Pope St. John Paul II stated unequivocally in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women,” and this principle extends, by logical and theological coherence, to the sacramental diaconate, which is a part of Holy Orders.
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The push to redefine the diaconate to include women is not a matter of minor discipline or pastoral adaptation – it is a rupture with the unbroken tradition of the Church and a step toward undermining the very nature of the sacramental priesthood. While women have always held an exalted place in the Church – as martyrs, mystics, and saints – their dignity is not advanced by imitating male roles, but by fully living out the unique vocation given to them by God.
Appointing a bishop who holds such views to shepherd a major archdiocese is a source of scandal and division. The faithful deserve clarity, not ambiguity; fidelity, not experimentation.
In this time of confusion, I encourage all Catholics to remain steadfast in the truth handed down from the Apostles. Christ is the Head of the Church, and His design for the sacraments cannot be altered by pressure from the world or misguided attempts at modernization.
Let us pray for Archbishop Mackinlay, that he may reaffirm his commitment to the unchanging teaching of the Church. And let us pray for Pope Leo XIV, that he may be guided by the Holy Spirit to appoint shepherds who uphold the fullness of Catholic truth without compromise.
In the Sacred Heart of Jesus,
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
The new Archbishop of Brisbrane, Shane Mackinlay
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This is not the first time you have admitted you are not a practicing Catholic; yet you continue to violate the Catholic caucus.
So please stop with your silly posts mocking the Catholic faith. In the meantime, I recommend you make a personal An Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
Adorable Heart of Jesus, glowing with love for us and inflamed with zeal for our salvation, O Heart ever sensible of our misery and of the wretchedness to which our sins have reduced us, Heart infinitely rich in mercy to heal the wounds of our souls: behold us prostrate before Thee to express the sorrow that fills our hearts for the coldness and indifference with which we have so long repaid the numberless benefits Thou has conferred upon us. With a deep sense of the offenses that have been heaped upon Thee by our sins and the sins of others, we come to make a solemn reparation of honor to Thy most sacred majesty. It was our sins that overwhelmed Thy heart with bitterness; it was the weight of our iniquities that pressed down Thy face to the earth in the Garden of Olives, and that caused Thee to expire in anguish and agony on the cross. But now, repenting and sorrowful, we cast ourselves at Thy feet and implore forgiveness.
Adorable Heart of Jesus, source of true contrition and ever merciful to the penitent sinner, impart to our hearts the spirit of penance and give to our eyes a fountain of tears, that we may sincerely bewail our sins now and for the rest of our days. Oh, would that we could blot them out, even with our blood! Pardon them, O Lord, in Thy mercy; and pardon and convert to Thyself all who have committed sacrileges or irreverences against Thee in the Sacrament of Thy love. Thus wilt Thou give another proof that Thy mercy is above all Thy works.
Divine Jesus, with Thee there is mercy and plentiful redemption: deliver us from our sins and accept the sincere desire we now entertain, together with our holy resolution, relying on the assistance of Thy grace, henceforth to be faithful to Thee. And in order to make reparation for the sins of ingratitude by which we have grieved Thy most tender and loving Heart, we are resolved in the future ever to love and honor Thee in the most adorable Sacrament of the altar, where Thou art ever present to hear and grant our petitions, and to be the food and life of our souls. Be Thou, O compassionate Jesus, our Mediator with Thy heavenly Father, whom we have so grievously offended; strengthen our weakness, confirm these our resolutions of amendment; and as Thy Sacred Heart is our refuge and our hope when we have sinned, so may it be the strength and support of our repentance, that nothing in life or death may ever again separate us from Thee. Amen.
Do catholic women have the same ... plumbing as normal women?
Asking for a friend who doesn’t like surprises.
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What does this mean? Is it like some of the Jew hating vile spewed out here? If so, just know that most of the people who support FR are Catholic.
So show me how much you donate and I will back off.
If you don’t donate, tell your dumbass “friend” to stfu
You can’t even keep your lies consistent.
First you claimed you skipped Mass to hunt coyotes (something that could be done on any day). So then you visited your neighbor to the north and ended up visiting your neighbor to the south.
But no time for God, for you. Pathetic.
“But no time for God, for you. Pathetic.” I didn’t see my neighbor to the south that day, Daniel, but I heard about his plight. Thought I could help. Maybe God was with me the whole time.
He was probably at Mass that day, unlike you.
Like I said before, pathetic.
Ben, the man I talked to that morning, to tell him his cows were out and I sure wouldn’t want them to wonder down the Oxhide Creek, wasn’t at church. He was at home caring for his son who was born premature, and who had spent a month in neo-natal intensive care in Wichita. Ben was home that morning caring for his wife and son. I never asked him if he was a practicing Catholic or not.
So Kawhill makes some sort of acknowledgement or confession to you that he missed Mass in order to help a friend and you try to get him or his comments banned, ebby?
Why Kawhill would make such a confession to you is beyond me but your reaction is bizarre. Are you holding yourself out as a priest of some sort, ebby? You define another’s actions or omissions as “sins” that require some sort of action by yourself or a moderator? Such sins that make one “not a Catholic?”
This is one step beyond.
BTW, I have asked you several times if your heroes, like Strickland, are monitoring their language with new Pope Leo. You, as usual, do not respond. I guess here is the answer and it’s clearly not walking the tight rope of respect for your Pope Leo.
You’re so gullible, foister. You fell for that pretend catholic’s lies?
Nobody heads out to Sunday Mass, yet stops to hunt coyotes on his way.
Secondly, farmers and ranchers have cell phones. All the liar had to do was call his neighbor and tell him where his cows where.
Thirdly, most Catholic churches have more than one Mass on Sundays.
The pretend liar doesn’t even believe in sacramental confession and skips Sunday Mass, yet you defend the liar.
He’s no more a practicing Catholic than you are with you relentless defense of sodomites.
Just more lies.
Give it a rest, pretend-catholic.
Why don’t you tell us when Pope Leo called Bergoglio, “holy”?
Otherwise, one may assume it’s another one of your many lies.
Why don’t you ask your buddy, Kawhill, what his posts about hunting coyotes, skipping Mass and “visiting” neighbors have to do with the topic article?
Just two pretend-Catholics who like to mock the Catholic faith.
I don't answer to fake catholics like yourself.
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