BREAKING: Pope Francis reportedly set to ask Bishop Strickland to resign!

The great problem here is that as St John said the children of the dark do their deeds in the dark. So who knows really what all went on?

However I am morally convinced that Papa Frabki is a heretic. Sine a heretic cannot be Pope, Frankie ain't Pope

I doubt very much on this count that he ever was Pope

 

Her point is more that Benedict‘s resignation was invalid because Benedict thought that he could retain a part of the office.

That isn’t possible because the office isn’t divisible.

If he wanted to retain any portion of the papacy he would have retained all of it.

 

This person showed great courage and presented the challenge of a lifetime for ALL bishops! Please God let this produce the sparks to set the other bishops on fire.

 

So the letter was not recent, and he has read it publicly before.

 

Wonderful. Bishop Strickland coverall the bases. Being nice and cowardice is killing us

 

That's unclear, Heidi. The link Brian posted was dated today, Nov. 11, 2023.

 

My sister told me that the bishop replacing Strickland will be the bishop of Austin, TX. That gives me hope, because he allows the Latin Mass in his cathedral on Sundays.

 

My initial reaction was But upon prayer and reflection I see thus a sign and validation that Bishop Strickland is spot on and doing the work of The Lord. When we are persecuted, rebuffed, thrown out and find “no room at the inn”, we should rejoice and know God is with us. Remember God makes straight with crooked lines.

And as Jesus did, prayer for the enemy. Peace

 

TaYlor Marshall spoke with the bishop yoday and asked him how he was doing. He said "I am praying" Apparently he has great peace in the midst of this. God bless him!

 

My guess would be that in the high ninety per cent of the human race has has had no direct dealings with folks who are pure evil and totally ruthless.

Thatt's why in dealing with people like Papa Frankie they don't know how to deal with him. Hence the confusion.

we are dealing with pure unadulterated evil here.

People don't know how to process something like that because they have zero experience of it.

 

I asked Fr. Z in the comments about the quote from the letter, and he said he was there in the room for that speech, and that the letter was read as an example of someone who is very upset over what is happening in the Church. So those who are reporting that Bishop Strickland said those things are taking it out of context.

 

yes you are correct, Heidi. (maybe it was his way of signalling what he himself believes to be true?)

 

I know that some are disturbed by this decision, as well as some other decisions of the Pope and the Vatican...However, I would like to tell you one thing. Do not sin against the pope (calling him evil, associating him with evil, etc.) because that is an insult to Christ. Obedience is perhaps the most difficult of all things that God expects from us, neither passions, nor money, nor power are as difficult to overcome as obedience. Remember that Christ was obedient to death on the cross, that as God he was obedient to people, to his earthly father Joseph and mother Mary. God constantly "humbles himself" for people, and we are arrogant because we know everything now and immediately. Pray for the Pope and for the Church because that is what is most needed....

I want to convey to you a text from our priest from 2018, read it and think, don't rush in your own truth because maybe God is asking us not to be right, but to trust Him...


Of all the virtues, the devil attacks obedience the most. Not only did Lucifer, Adam and Eve fall on it, but also Protestantism, Orthodoxy, and all the schisms in the history of the Church. We must note that all of them did not mean a fall from pure rebellion and wickedness, but were torn between fidelity to an ideal of justice and truth, and fidelity to the mother Church. It is incomprehensible that in these doubts God asks us to choose the latter. But he's looking. And that has its own invisible but incomprehensibly deep mystical meaning. In this seduction, not only sects were born, but also revolutions, both the French one and the Communist one, that of Liberation Theology, and equally the Lefebvre rebellion and all those similar to it. Even beautiful monastic and priestly vocations fall to obedience in the face of unreasonable leaders and bishops, but they are always and always wrong. The idealism of believers who are not ready to be faithful to the hierarchy of the Catholic Church until death (and that is really the most difficult thing because it asks you to submit to a sinful man who sometimes seems even crazier and worse and less ecclesiastical than you), and today, it is strongly tried through Pope Francis .

No matter what happens and no matter how he governs, and no matter what anyone privately thinks about his decisions, if he allows himself to lack respect or willingness to listen to him, even defend and truly love him as his God-sent leader, and stop paying attention to his ulged so that he would not accidentally violate it publicly - the devil has already isolated him and is ready to drag his soul along the endless waves of questions of faith. Obedience requires dying to self and pride to the point of death, to self-annihilation. It is similar to the binding and betrayal of Christ and his crucifixion to death. But, just as similar to his glorification, he also glorifies us in an incomprehensible way. This is what promotes sober and sane "logicians." This requires faith beyond all logic, except for the logic of love that captivates itself to death.
Belonging to the Church does not have its foundation in visible logic and effect, but in love-motivated determination to be faithful to the point of complete renunciation even of one's own will. "But not mine, but Your will..." or, as St. Ignatius begged: "Take, sir, and receive all my freedom, memory, reason and will..." How incomprehensible and foreign to one Luther! It's hard! Really too demanding. There is nothing more difficult! Yes, the devil couldn't do that.

All those who agree to build their relationship with the Pope and the Church on the basis of their logical insights are paper boats in devilish unbelief. Human logic, which has been traded in front of obedient belief, is a game for the evil one, even when it comes to the greatest theologians in the history of the Church.
All such fell and sank, disappeared. And the rest were small and ignorant, and turned out to be wiser than the learned and wise. Everyone will fall on Pope Francis, and the test that God is putting through him today. Charismatism, traditionalism, theology, liberalism... Who knows, maybe this is exactly what the Church needs? I do not know. We just need to know: Pope Francis (that's how he should be addressed, not Bergoljo, or whatever), is God's chosen one, and for him God says today: "listen to him!" Listen to him, don't be crazy!

 

God's chosen one, and for him God says today: "listen to him!" Listen to him, don't be crazy! Sorry orangina, you lost me there. If your priest wrote that in 2018, things are a million times worse since then.

 

In our country, I guess 95% of priests and bishops are traditionally oriented, but they all repeat their loyalty to the Church and Pope Francis. That's the only way, I know that things are far worse now than in 2018, not only in the religious-moral sense, politically, but on every other level.

But don't forget that the first pope was St. Peter, the person who betrayed Jesus 3 times.
Do you think that one of the other apostles, for example John, could not think that I followed him to the cross and then the pope is someone who betrayed the Lord?!
The Church is not perfect because of the Pope, because of priests, or because of brilliant theologians, but it is perfect because of Christ, who is the Church. The first pope denied Christ, and Jesus placed him at the head of his "masterpiece" and gave him the keys to heaven.
We do not understand all things at the moment, but as long as the Pope and the Vatican follow the dogmas it is the same Catholic Church that Christ left us. Times are hard, but don't fall into sin...Pope Francis carries a great burden, but he also has a great responsibility, and he will have to pay big bills, much bigger than us. We should pray for the Pope and for the unity of the Church.

Christ has won and risen, the Church will not perish, but loyalty to Christ is expressed in belief when everything tells us that it is over and impossible...

By this I am not saying that we should blindly believe, that we should not criticize sin or even worse that we should follow sin as some priests in Germany do... But we should not fall into the sin of disobedience and arrogance. When things get far worse, God will show the way and "lift up" his people who will lead the faithful as he has done every time in history.

 

I repeat again, you are falling into a trap because you are trying to correct the injustice that you see and that certainly exists in an even worse way, and in fact you are creating divisions and an even bigger mess, and that is exactly what evil wants.

Every time someone from the laity calls out Pope Francis in an ugly way, evil rubs its happy hands because it succeeded in its intention. Obedience to the authority of the Pope is obedience to the authority of Christ, there is no other (false or real), it is the only one.
The same thing when you go to confession, let's say to a sinful priest. Christ is the one who gives absolution, the priest is only a means by which he is used and no matter what kind of sinner he is, he is the tool of absolution.

Luther may have had good intentions, the Church was not in a good state, but he made the state far worse. He separated hundreds of millions of believers from the source of faith, caused future wars, heresies and the worst apostasy from faith that primarily occurs in Protestant countries that become atheistic...

On the other hand, Saint Francis had a different approach. He humbled himself, became similar to Christ and performed his duty in suffering, work and love for Christ, the Church and the Pope. The fruits are thousands and thousands of vocations, a bunch of monasteries, Christian conversions and missionaries, martyrs and saints over the centuries.

We do not have the authority to determine who deserves to be pope and who does not. We can only trust God and be loyal to the Church. Everything else is pride that leads to ruin, both for ourselves and for the Church.
In the end, you have a guarantee that the Church will survive, you have a clear Catholic teaching that still stands regardless of those who may not implement it...
When the Church officially announces something contrary to earlier teaching, i.e. "bless sin", then it will be a completely new story. However, God will show the way as always.