EXCLUSIVE: Strickland Sacking Signals ‘Internal Persecution of Faithful Catholics by the Pope’, by Simon Caldwell

By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Herald, November 27, 2023

An outspoken bishop has accused the Pope of orchestrating an “internal persecution” of faithful Catholics.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider said the sacking of the Rt Rev. Joseph Strickland as Bishop of Tyler, Texas, represented a particularly unjust exercise of papal power against a faithful and conscientious Church leader.

“This will go down in history as a great injustice against a bishop who did only his task in a time of confusion,” said Bishop Schneider in an exclusive interview with the Catholic Herald in Cambridge.

“Now it is silenced, this voice,” the bishop said. “That was the evident, clear intention.”

Bishop Schneider continued: “I consider this a huge, blatant injustice which was committed. I know him (Bishop Strickland) personally. I have visited his diocese. He is a man of God. Evidently in his diocese were growing new families with children, seminarians – the true spiritual life of the Catholic faith was growing. ….

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