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[Catholic Caucus] Villanova historian says Chaput, Cordileone, and Strickland are ‘devout schismatics’ A Church historian at Philadelphia’s Villanova University has said three U.S. bishops are “devout schismatics” who try to diminish the authority of Pope Francis.“They are devout in the sense that they publicly display their preference for a traditionalist Church and its devotions, such as the rosary. They are schismatics because they openly promote the undermining of the bishop of Rome among the Catholic faithful,” Massimo Faggioli wrote in a July 16 essay for La Croix magazine.Faggioli made specific mention of three U.S. bishops among those he called “devout...