I love you Bishop Strickland. Thank you for being OUR BISHOP. The Lord has rewards for those like you willing to lose all and die for Him! I'm praying for you every day!
God love you, Bishop Strickland. Thank you for crying out the truth and calling your brother bishops and the faithful to task. May you be blessed and strengthened for the fight to come!
The synod is a dumpster fire of bad and manipulated theology all driven by a purely political agenda that emanates from the Francis minions. The USCCB is in "hopefully it will pass over" mode and again exhibits the spine of an earthworm. They may keep their mitres and croziers but they risk losing something else that is infinitely more valuable. We need clarity from the shepherd's. They are to go forth and protect the church from the wolves of the night, not wait and see what happens.
It was a blessing to hear you read this most excellent letter today in Baltimore. May it reach the hearts and minds of your brother bishops! Saints Nathaniel and Jude, pray for us.
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò explains what is and what is not a schism: “Schism is a sin against the unity of the Church. It is carried out at the moment when a baptized person refuses to submit to the authority of the Roman Pontiff and to remain in the communion of faith and charity of the Catholic Church.
But what happens if on the Chair of Peter there is – instead of a Pope who defends and governs the Church – there is a usurper who systematically demolishes her, and who is chosen and appointed by fraud by the St Gallen Mafia for this very purpose? The Catholic Church is presently occupied by an extraneous body that superimposes itself on her and obscures her, similar to an eclipse: this extraneous body is not the Church, but the anti-church of the False Prophet, and as such it is not possible to be in communion with it.”
The Archbishop points to the position of contemporary Catholics who have become hostages of the apostate Bergoglio. After the release of the Fiducia supplicans declaration, they found themselves in a synodal counterfeit of the Catholic Church proclaiming a sodomite antigospel: “Catholics belong to the Catholic Church, not to its conciliar and synodal counterfeit of which Bergoglio is the head. It is Bergoglio who is in a state of schism with the Church of which he claims to be Pope, and as a heretic and schismatic he does not have nor can he exercise any power, nor demand any obedience.”
Archbishop Viganò speaks about the abuse of the ecclesiastical courts: “I reiterate, however, that the use of the judiciary for political purposes that we witness in the civil sphere, especially in the United States of America, is mirrored in the ecclesiastical sphere through instrumental and specious canonical sanctions.”
The Archbishop points to the precedent-setting and invalid punishment Bergoglio is using to intimidate other bishops and priests into silence: “The excommunication against me, even if manifestly invalid and null and void, constitutes a form of repression of dissent and should serve as a deterrent for others. I am convinced that I would have gravely failed in my duties as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles if I had continued to remain silent, as unfortunately all my confreres do.”
The Archbishop shows that Satan’s influence is most effective when he can abuse official structures: “I would like to draw attention to a fundamental and very important element. We must understand that ‘the masterstroke of Satan’, the sworn enemy of the Church, has occurred by his appropriating authority and abusing the power connected with her, so that his disintegrating action has had all the appearances of at least formal legality.”
Archbishop Viganò compares the Second Vatican Council to a timed mine: “The Second Vatican Council was to be the juridical instrument with which to place the dynamite at the very foundation of the Church, and then detonate it later. It had to look like a Council, it had to give the idea of having the same authority as the Council of Nicaea or Trent, but at the same time it could not define as truths to be believed any heresies that the Magisterium had already condemned.”
Archbishop Viganò emphasizes the Council’s method of covertly promoting heresies, namely the ambiguity of terms: “Thus those errors were insinuated by means of equivocation – deliberately imprecise formulations which at the right moment could serve as a basis on which to implement the revolution. People continue to speak of ‘the Council’, but we should have the honesty to recognize that for the ‘conciliar church’ born with Vatican II there is only one ‘council’, which surpasses in authority and importance all the other twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church. The anomaly is represented by this Council, because it was used for a subversive purpose, under the formal appearance of a solemn act of the Church and with the authoritativeness (as well as the authority) of the Pope and the Council Fathers.”
Archbishop Viganò reveals that the Second Vatican Council created the preconditions for the current Bergoglian revolution within the Church and for the transformation of the Church into a New Age anti-church. It is a Masonic project: “The purpose of Vatican II was to create the doctrinal premises – not necessarily explicit and indeed often hidden in ambiguous formulations – to revolutionize the Church, Protestantizing and secularizing her, so as to be able to ferry her towards the syncretistic union of all religions. And this is the project of Freemasonry: the ecumenical and inclusive Religion of Humanity.”
Thank you for this. Given the priests were given the power to bind and the power to release, and none of us wants to be stuck in hell for doing the right thing and being condemned by a heretical pope, it's good to know he's simply not Pope anymore. Of course, it seemed illogical, but it was a question I had.
Bishop, could you please help me better understand your call to action for the laity?
You ask us to speak up, but what exactly are you asking us to say, and to whom?
Forgive me if this is obvious to others, but I take our duty to honor and obey our clergy very seriously, and would not want to sin by detraction or scandalize others just because I misunderstood.
Bishop Strickland would NEVER want anyone to be disrespectful or unkind. For myself, I am requesting a personal visit with my bishop. I plan to ask him about the situation to gain a better understanding of him and his participation in the current situation in the Church. I will ask him what he expects of me. At that time, I will give him my answer as per the Holy Spirit puts it on my heart.
Prepare yourself for smooth, deceptive words. The vast majority of bishops are neo-modernists, concealing their true intentions behind a facade of false piety whenever they face the laity.
What should the laity do if the Bishops fail us? As the day of judgment gets closer surely the shepherds who should be rightly guiding us will be the ones who will forsake us or better said misguide us? But than is this laity we speak of so naive? Aren't the Bishops risen to those positions from the laity itself? So the laity has the Word (The Holy Spirit) of God with them, unless the Laity forsake The guidance of The Holy Spirit.. because Jesus said I shall be with you till the end of times!
The laity needs to hold on to The Holy Spirit let those Bishops forsake us. The Holy Spirit lives with each of us, so the laity needs to remain in Jesus to gain this power!
This is my what I’m hoping for clarification on from Bishop Strickland. Is he asserting sedevacantism here, or just saying that people should more strongly rebuke errors from the Pope? Big difference, obviously, and I’m not clear on what he is advocating for from his post.
i lector at a church in NY and have in past supported Cardinal Dolan's Annual Appeal. in the meantime over these years i have also phoned or emailed the Cardinal to complain about his lack of visibility on such issues as discussed by Bishop Strickland here. Funny that since I stopped sending $$$ to the Appeal, the Cardinal's office has reached out to me several times wondering 'why haven't you participated in the Appeal?' (i have upped the $$$ i send to EWTN or 'repair and maintenance' collections). God bless everyone. Pray the Rosary!
Dear Faithful Son of Mary, you risk everything of this material world to bring Glory to God the Father.
It IS incumbent on the faithful to put on that armor of God daily. To ensure we are all in the state of Grace, praying the Rosary daily, fasting and keeping First Fridays and Saturdays as our Blessed Mother asked. Christ is calling,and it’s time to stand shoulder to shoulder under the Banner of Our Lord, with the Blessed Mother, Shepherded by our Good Bishops.
“If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart.”
"What if your shepherds do not rally? What if they have all accepted thirty pieces of silver, and they remain silent in the face of falsehood which further pierces the hands and feet of Our Lord? Then what will it take for you to speak up?"
Bishop Strickland, I've been clear to my kids that Francis is wrong on many things, but what else can I do? Do we flood the Vatican with emails or mail and ask for Francis's recall? Give us a concrete action item (in addition to prayer) with an email or an address.
I agree. Aside from reducing donations, what can we do? Call a "people's synod" and attempt to goad our bishops into action? (No, I'm not volunteering to organize this. :-) ) Mr. Bergoglio has made it clear he wants a church governed by the people, but up till now, only he gets to pick who is included in "the people."
Right - and it's not like I donate to the Vatican anyways. We have good priests in our parish and their teaching is solid. They don't go around criticizing the Pope, but they do teach the faith. It's very rare I have to tell my kids that they were wrong about something.
I did stop giving to Peter's Pence a while ago because I have no idea how Francis uses it, and we give to poor both locally and internationally through small truly-Catholic organizations, but if Peter's Pence really does go to the poor, it's not hurting Francis anyways.
True, but so do California's politicians when I tell them that I oppose a law they're trying to pass. But in that case, it is still my responsibility to do so. But I come back to the question - aside from prayer, what is Bishop Strickland asking us to do? The Catholic church is not like governments, so his wisdom on actions would be helpful.
Your words are bold and brave. They encourage us to defend the faith in the same way. We can do no less. Truth Incarnate! Que Viva Cristo Rey!
Que viva!
I love you Bishop Strickland. Thank you for being OUR BISHOP. The Lord has rewards for those like you willing to lose all and die for Him! I'm praying for you every day!
His reward will be great in heaven!
God love you, Bishop Strickland. Thank you for crying out the truth and calling your brother bishops and the faithful to task. May you be blessed and strengthened for the fight to come!
Amen.
Thank you Jesus for giving us Bishop Strickland. He is so very much needed in these dark times.
How? Wouldn’t the ones who promote such things as Fiducia Supplicans be considered heretics?
The synod is a dumpster fire of bad and manipulated theology all driven by a purely political agenda that emanates from the Francis minions. The USCCB is in "hopefully it will pass over" mode and again exhibits the spine of an earthworm. They may keep their mitres and croziers but they risk losing something else that is infinitely more valuable. We need clarity from the shepherd's. They are to go forth and protect the church from the wolves of the night, not wait and see what happens.
Oh Lord, grant us priests. Oh Lord, grant us many holy priests!!
Let this prayer stay in our daily rosary!!!
God, bless Bishop Strickland abundantly ❤️
Amen
St John Fisher, pray for us and all bishops of the church, that they may teach the Truth of the faith with fidelity.
Amen
It was a blessing to hear you read this most excellent letter today in Baltimore. May it reach the hearts and minds of your brother bishops! Saints Nathaniel and Jude, pray for us.
Amen
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò explains what is and what is not a schism: “Schism is a sin against the unity of the Church. It is carried out at the moment when a baptized person refuses to submit to the authority of the Roman Pontiff and to remain in the communion of faith and charity of the Catholic Church.
But what happens if on the Chair of Peter there is – instead of a Pope who defends and governs the Church – there is a usurper who systematically demolishes her, and who is chosen and appointed by fraud by the St Gallen Mafia for this very purpose? The Catholic Church is presently occupied by an extraneous body that superimposes itself on her and obscures her, similar to an eclipse: this extraneous body is not the Church, but the anti-church of the False Prophet, and as such it is not possible to be in communion with it.”
The Archbishop points to the position of contemporary Catholics who have become hostages of the apostate Bergoglio. After the release of the Fiducia supplicans declaration, they found themselves in a synodal counterfeit of the Catholic Church proclaiming a sodomite antigospel: “Catholics belong to the Catholic Church, not to its conciliar and synodal counterfeit of which Bergoglio is the head. It is Bergoglio who is in a state of schism with the Church of which he claims to be Pope, and as a heretic and schismatic he does not have nor can he exercise any power, nor demand any obedience.”
Archbishop Viganò speaks about the abuse of the ecclesiastical courts: “I reiterate, however, that the use of the judiciary for political purposes that we witness in the civil sphere, especially in the United States of America, is mirrored in the ecclesiastical sphere through instrumental and specious canonical sanctions.”
The Archbishop points to the precedent-setting and invalid punishment Bergoglio is using to intimidate other bishops and priests into silence: “The excommunication against me, even if manifestly invalid and null and void, constitutes a form of repression of dissent and should serve as a deterrent for others. I am convinced that I would have gravely failed in my duties as Bishop and Successor of the Apostles if I had continued to remain silent, as unfortunately all my confreres do.”
The Archbishop shows that Satan’s influence is most effective when he can abuse official structures: “I would like to draw attention to a fundamental and very important element. We must understand that ‘the masterstroke of Satan’, the sworn enemy of the Church, has occurred by his appropriating authority and abusing the power connected with her, so that his disintegrating action has had all the appearances of at least formal legality.”
Archbishop Viganò compares the Second Vatican Council to a timed mine: “The Second Vatican Council was to be the juridical instrument with which to place the dynamite at the very foundation of the Church, and then detonate it later. It had to look like a Council, it had to give the idea of having the same authority as the Council of Nicaea or Trent, but at the same time it could not define as truths to be believed any heresies that the Magisterium had already condemned.”
Archbishop Viganò emphasizes the Council’s method of covertly promoting heresies, namely the ambiguity of terms: “Thus those errors were insinuated by means of equivocation – deliberately imprecise formulations which at the right moment could serve as a basis on which to implement the revolution. People continue to speak of ‘the Council’, but we should have the honesty to recognize that for the ‘conciliar church’ born with Vatican II there is only one ‘council’, which surpasses in authority and importance all the other twenty ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church. The anomaly is represented by this Council, because it was used for a subversive purpose, under the formal appearance of a solemn act of the Church and with the authoritativeness (as well as the authority) of the Pope and the Council Fathers.”
Archbishop Viganò reveals that the Second Vatican Council created the preconditions for the current Bergoglian revolution within the Church and for the transformation of the Church into a New Age anti-church. It is a Masonic project: “The purpose of Vatican II was to create the doctrinal premises – not necessarily explicit and indeed often hidden in ambiguous formulations – to revolutionize the Church, Protestantizing and secularizing her, so as to be able to ferry her towards the syncretistic union of all religions. And this is the project of Freemasonry: the ecumenical and inclusive Religion of Humanity.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-USC-PT-X_A&ab_channel=PatriarcadoCat%C3%B3licoBizantino
Thank you for this. Given the priests were given the power to bind and the power to release, and none of us wants to be stuck in hell for doing the right thing and being condemned by a heretical pope, it's good to know he's simply not Pope anymore. Of course, it seemed illogical, but it was a question I had.
Is this from Life Site news?
Bishop, could you please help me better understand your call to action for the laity?
You ask us to speak up, but what exactly are you asking us to say, and to whom?
Forgive me if this is obvious to others, but I take our duty to honor and obey our clergy very seriously, and would not want to sin by detraction or scandalize others just because I misunderstood.
Bishop Strickland would NEVER want anyone to be disrespectful or unkind. For myself, I am requesting a personal visit with my bishop. I plan to ask him about the situation to gain a better understanding of him and his participation in the current situation in the Church. I will ask him what he expects of me. At that time, I will give him my answer as per the Holy Spirit puts it on my heart.
That sounds like a wise course of action. Thanks for sharing, Marie.
Prepare yourself for smooth, deceptive words. The vast majority of bishops are neo-modernists, concealing their true intentions behind a facade of false piety whenever they face the laity.
What should the laity do if the Bishops fail us? As the day of judgment gets closer surely the shepherds who should be rightly guiding us will be the ones who will forsake us or better said misguide us? But than is this laity we speak of so naive? Aren't the Bishops risen to those positions from the laity itself? So the laity has the Word (The Holy Spirit) of God with them, unless the Laity forsake The guidance of The Holy Spirit.. because Jesus said I shall be with you till the end of times!
The laity needs to hold on to The Holy Spirit let those Bishops forsake us. The Holy Spirit lives with each of us, so the laity needs to remain in Jesus to gain this power!
Great questions
This is my what I’m hoping for clarification on from Bishop Strickland. Is he asserting sedevacantism here, or just saying that people should more strongly rebuke errors from the Pope? Big difference, obviously, and I’m not clear on what he is advocating for from his post.
Accidentally deleted. Confirmation in today’s reading.
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/titus/3?1
i lector at a church in NY and have in past supported Cardinal Dolan's Annual Appeal. in the meantime over these years i have also phoned or emailed the Cardinal to complain about his lack of visibility on such issues as discussed by Bishop Strickland here. Funny that since I stopped sending $$$ to the Appeal, the Cardinal's office has reached out to me several times wondering 'why haven't you participated in the Appeal?' (i have upped the $$$ i send to EWTN or 'repair and maintenance' collections). God bless everyone. Pray the Rosary!
Thank you dear Bishop Strickland for your courage 🙏🙏🙏
“My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me.
Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests.
Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.
The more priests there are, the more they sin against me.
They have exchanged the glory of God for the shame of idols.”
Hosea 4:6-7 NLT
“Cling to your faith in Christ, and keep your conscience clear.
For some people have deliberately violated their consciences; as a result, their faith has been shipwrecked.”
1 Timothy 1:19 NLT
With love in Christ.
-The Night Watchman
Dear Faithful Son of Mary, you risk everything of this material world to bring Glory to God the Father.
It IS incumbent on the faithful to put on that armor of God daily. To ensure we are all in the state of Grace, praying the Rosary daily, fasting and keeping First Fridays and Saturdays as our Blessed Mother asked. Christ is calling,and it’s time to stand shoulder to shoulder under the Banner of Our Lord, with the Blessed Mother, Shepherded by our Good Bishops.
“If today you hear His voice, harden not your heart.”
Maybe, the lay faithfull should guestion their Bishops. How do they intend to confront this antipope,and his henchmen. Also talk to your local priest.
"What if your shepherds do not rally? What if they have all accepted thirty pieces of silver, and they remain silent in the face of falsehood which further pierces the hands and feet of Our Lord? Then what will it take for you to speak up?"
Bishop Strickland, I've been clear to my kids that Francis is wrong on many things, but what else can I do? Do we flood the Vatican with emails or mail and ask for Francis's recall? Give us a concrete action item (in addition to prayer) with an email or an address.
I agree. Aside from reducing donations, what can we do? Call a "people's synod" and attempt to goad our bishops into action? (No, I'm not volunteering to organize this. :-) ) Mr. Bergoglio has made it clear he wants a church governed by the people, but up till now, only he gets to pick who is included in "the people."
Right - and it's not like I donate to the Vatican anyways. We have good priests in our parish and their teaching is solid. They don't go around criticizing the Pope, but they do teach the faith. It's very rare I have to tell my kids that they were wrong about something.
I did stop giving to Peter's Pence a while ago because I have no idea how Francis uses it, and we give to poor both locally and internationally through small truly-Catholic organizations, but if Peter's Pence really does go to the poor, it's not hurting Francis anyways.
True, but so do California's politicians when I tell them that I oppose a law they're trying to pass. But in that case, it is still my responsibility to do so. But I come back to the question - aside from prayer, what is Bishop Strickland asking us to do? The Catholic church is not like governments, so his wisdom on actions would be helpful.