Bishop Joseph Strickland wrote on BishopStrickland.com (May 9) that he has been mislabeled as a sedevacantist by “a small number of people”.
Strickland describes sedevacantism as a false belief and the claim that there has been no valid pope since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, that as well as that the sacrament of Holy Orders is invalid in the Novus Ordo.
Strickland writes: “I want to make it clear that I am not and have never been a sedevacantist, as most people who have read my pastoral letters should know.”
And, “I have the utmost respect for the office of the papacy - the Vicar of Christ - and I regularly quote the teachings of Pope St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI, as well as other popes who have occupied the Chair of St. Peter since Vatican II.”
He doesn't mention Francis but prays that the papacy "will stand always as a visible sign of truth, clarity, and unity to Christ and to the faithful."
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