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Bishop Joseph Strickland: When Wolves Wear Vestments: The Synodal Siege Within the Church – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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By Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, Bishop Emeritus of Tyler, Substack, July 09, 2025

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Dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

There are moments in the Church’s history when the sheep must look up – not because of storms from the world, but because the shepherds themselves have fallen silent … or worse, have joined the wolves.

St Paul once warned the Church in Ephesus with piercing clarity:

“I know that, after my departure, ravening wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock” (Acts 20:29).

And those wolves have come. They wear vestments. They speak of mercy, but they mock truth. They preach inclusion, but they exclude fidelity to the Deposit of Faith. They bless what God has called sin.

We are living through a siege – not from without, but from within. This is the hour of betrayal not unlike the garden of Gethsemane. But this time the betrayers wear miters and carry croziers. …

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