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Who Will Safeguard the Sheep? by Sheryl Collmer – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Who Will Safeguard the Sheep? by Sheryl Collmer

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Who Will Safeguard the Sheep? by Sheryl Collmer. Nov. 13, 2024. Crisis Magazine

By Sheryl Collmer, Crisis Magazine, Nov. 13, 2024

Sheryl Collmer is an independent consultant for several non-profit organizations. She holds a Master’s in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas, as well as an MBA. From her home in the diocese of Tyler, Texas, she studies homesteading, history, and the currents in the Church.

The open lesion that can’t heal is the realization that our shepherds despise or entirely disregard us. Will any of them break out of lockstep in Baltimore this week?

The attack on the Traditional Latin Mass in Tyler, Texas this weekend has gobsmacked us all, both traditional and Novus Ordo Catholics. Why now? Why on the first anniversary of the loss of our dear bishop? The fact that the apostolic administrator, Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin, requested a ruling hints that it might be part of a negotiation.

Maybe that was the only way they could get someone to agree to come to Tyler, a tiny place by every conceivable measure, not a trampoline to higher power in the Church, and with a laity still raw over the irregular removal of our shepherd. The robust financial condition of the diocese has almost certainly suffered in the last year, as we watched the diocese fail to mount even the slightest defense of our good bishop. That left us only one avenue of recourse: pulling our contributions. …

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