Schneider To Strickland, !Future Popes Will Thank You!
Bishop Schneider sent a letter of support to Tyler Bishop Joseph Strickland on August 2, acknowledging his “intrepid dedication to uncompromisingly keep, transmit, and defend the Catholic faith.”
He applies to Strickland a quote from St Basil (+379), who wrote to Pope Damasus asking for help because "the one charge that is now sure to secure severe punishment is the careful keeping of the traditions of the Fathers.”
Basil added that “the more a man blasphemes, the fitter the people think him to be a bishop” and that “clerical dignity is a thing of the past.” Schneider says that we live in similar times.
While Basil could turn to Pope Damasus for help, Strickland doesn't have that option, Schneider analyses, “On the contrary, the Holy See put you now under scrutiny and threatens you with intimidations and deprivation of the episcopal care of your flock in Tyler, basically only for the one reason, that you, like St. Basil, St. Athanasius …More
Hypocrisy at the highest "ecclesiastical" level. Bishop Schneider where DO YOU STAND? You can't stay in the "middle" comfortable in your 'high chair'. Why don't you, Bishop Schneider, clearly state if you are on aka Francis ' side or the side of the Catholic Church? You cannot continue to play with people's emotions. It's your opportunistic 'lukewarmness' that merit no 'respect'. Bishop Strickland, at least, defined his stand. You Bishop Schneider, have not yet. Which means that you are NOT on the side of the Church, or worse, you want to 'watch the spectacle' see what happens and then get on the winners' chariot. If you have any dignity, speak up and stand, like Strickland; and please, please, don't give us the old 'refrain': "we must be obedient". You know that is NONSENSE. Otherwise, why would you send such a message to Bishop Strickland! Correct? You, Burke, Vigano' ...all you do is manipulate the Faith of the confused flock of the Lord. Go do some Penance yourselves, you all need to! We can no longer listen to your hypocritical words of convenience.
You falsely judge the good Bishop, @Opera 369 and accuse him unrighteously. What you wrongly claim in your comment is NOT TRUE and is clearly vomited out from you by the Father of Lies himself. Bishop Schneider has often and consistently defended the Faith and condemned the errors of those who would pervert the Gospel of Christ and compromise the Doctrine and Magisterium of Holy Mother Church. As a holy Priest and a faithful Shepherd with unimpeachable character and an exemplary devotion of the highest order, he is one of the very few unambiguous voices in the Church who speaks boldly and in truth. You do the work of the devil in attacking him so. He is unworthy of the insidiously denigrating manner in which you address him, and the dog-rabid madness by which you seek to slur and sully his integrity and his commitment and fidelity to the Deposit of Faith. Your sin of calumny and deceptive, evil words promote and advances the corrosive and poisonous divisiveness which afflicts Tradition and those who adhere to it. What would you have him do or say, than that which he constantly says and does in the defense of the Faith? He has even openly and publicly confronted Pope Francis during an Ad Limina visit with questions and concerns regarding the so-called “diversity of religions” statement in the Ecumenical Declaration that the Holy Father had signed. And without hesitation or vacillation he has staunchly and courageously opposed and spoken out firmly against the heretical drivel emanating from the Holy See and from the foul, tainted mouths of Satan’s minions who love abomination and ceaselessly promote and implement hell’s agenda throughout the world. You surely offend and insult the Blessed Mother with your unjust castigation of her priestly son.
Repent of your foolishness.
@SonoftheChurch with respect, but you are a 'son of emotions' ala woke mentality of modernism, embraced well by Bergoglio a/k/a Francis. In the letter, Schneider is making Jorge seem like an 'impotent, poor victim' of these so called high prelates in the Vatican. Really? We would have to believe that aka Francis is being 'ill advised' and 'forced' to do all the wrong (to Bishop Strickland) that he's being doing in the last 10 years, because there are these so-called high powered ecclesiastics in the Vatican that 'make him do it'? Bishop Schneider is truly in denial, or accomplice or really a fearful man, that ...no wonder the "Spouse of Christ" is in such subverting ... of the anti-Church! Go do some research and use "Logos" not 'emotion'... and then you will see the drama better.