Pope Francis has dismissed Bishop Joseph E. Strickland of Tyler, Texas, one of his fiercest critics among U.S. Roman Catholic conservatives, a Vatican statement said on Saturday.
  • logicbomb@lemmy.world
    1242·
    11 months ago

    So high level overview is that Strickland was an ultra MAGA bishop who strongly supported Trump, and has publicly stated that he’d refuse the normal method for a bishop to be removed, in which he is asked to resign.

    There’s also this anecdote from the article:

    Last year, when the Vatican defrocked ultra-conservative U.S. anti-abortion priest Frank Pavone for “blasphemous” social media posts and disobedience to bishops, Strickland was one of the few American bishops to defend him publicly.

    “The blasphemy is that this holy priest is canceled while an evil president promotes the denial of truth and the murder of the unborn at every turn, Vatican officials promote immorality and denial of the deposit of faith and priests promote gender confusion devastating lives…evil,” Strickland wrote on the platform then known as Twitter.

    So basically, Strickland joined one of the most authoritarian organizations in the world, the Catholic Church, and then refused to obey the Pope, instead choosing to worship fucking Donald Trump, of all people, all the while calling President Biden and even the Vatican “evil.”

    Sounds like this man was far too stupid to be in such a position of power. Just another idiot who sacrificed himself for a rich con man.

    • NegativeNull@lemm.ee@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      15·
      11 months ago

      I don’t think he wanted the job. He found a better grift, and getting fired by the Pope will only enhance that grift.

    • snooggums@kbin.social
      73·
      11 months ago

      Not bowing to church authority is the only way to be disciplined in the Catholic Church.

      • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        Hahaha, that’s funny. In this example he bends his knee (and spine) to Donald Fucking Trump.

  • Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
    169·
    11 months ago

    Touching kids’ buttholes? The Pope stands with you and will protect you. Criticize the Pope? That is too far, you must leave.