Bishop Strickland: Hopes for Leo XIV Are Fading
The hope that Leo XIV would faithfully uphold the Deposit of Faith has already been tested and, sadly, diminished, Bishop Joseph Strickland told the London-based TheCatholicHerald.com on August 11. His arguments:
- Leo XIV has retained Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – a man whose record includes undermining moral doctrine and approving documents that confuse the faithful on issues such as homosex "blessings".
- He has appointed bishops who openly support the ordination of women, contrary to the Church’s constant teaching.
- He has also maintained restrictions on the Traditional Latin Mass, depriving the faithful of a liturgy that formed countless saints.
- These are not small matters. They represent a continuation of the same pattern we saw under Pope Francis – tolerating, or even promoting, voices that contradict the faith, while sidelining those who speak it plainly.
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Bishop Strickland: Archbishop Lefebvre will be ‘recognized by history’ for sustaining the Latin Mass:
Until the good Bishop gives an account of himself for his treachery and his backstabbing betrayal of John Henry, and publicly repents for the chaos and mayhem he contributed to in the whole LifeSite News debacle, he should be silent. Lest he be deemed a lying hypocrite like so many others among his brother-Bishops.
Not only the liturgy, but also the faith of the Church.
The bishops who voted for the conciliar decrees all celebrated the traditional Mass, but they turned their backs on the faith of the Church. Approximately 98% of the bishops, if not more, voted in favor of those decrees.
Nb. There is nothing in VatII calling for a new rite. There is nothing in VatII calling for the vernaculariztion of the liturgy. And there is nothing in VatII calling for the elimination of ad orientem celebration.
There are flaws in some of the documents, but the problem was liturgical commission following the Council, head by our hero Annibale Bugnini.
The bishop’s conduct was meticulously detailed by several sedevacantist priests who led their flocks to join the FSSPX but found themselves obliged to surrender all the property their communities built to him.
Re: his obfuscation: he settled on the 1962 Missal which is compromised and the proto-Novus Ordo Missal.
The biggest problem with Lefebvre, apart from the questionable morality of how he frequently seized the property of independent Latin Mass communities, is that he unequivocally advocated for the compromises and quasi-traditional 1962 Missal. That Missal is NOT THE BOOK promulgated by the COUNCIL OF TRENT. If anything, he stunted the restoration of true tradition. He obfuscated the real issue by places all the blame on Vatican II.
Thank you, bishop Strickland. We waited 12 years for something with Bergoglio and now we wait for something else? Should we also wait for Prevost to die before anything is done? Countless heresies were promulgated in the past 12 years. None of them was renounced. Millions of souls are at stake, every day.
Too early--it will take at least one year.
Nb. BXVI, who had 24 years in the Curia before being elected pope, was elected in April 2005. Summorum Pontificum wasn’t promulgated until July 2007.
@Dr. Bobus Even if they were already in the pipeline (which I don't believe of all those appointments) Leo remains responsible. If he had any faith, he would not have confirmed these appointments.
@Dr. Bobus They were in the pipeline because he was Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops. As such, he shepherded these appointments through the process.
He suggests that a hundred years from now, Archbishop Lefebvre will be remembered as a faithful Catholic who stood up for principles that were in danger of being lost, the central one being the Latin Mass.
Actually it was said he would be raised to the Altars and become a Doctor of The Church and was prophetic.
Source says unnamed cardinal told him SSPX …