The Texas Catholic bishop whom Pope Francis dismissed from his leadership of the Tyler Diocese told RedState he and other Catholics must resist the last-gasp efforts of the generation of Catholic clerics who brought radical change to the Church.
“We need to speak up in the truth, but the people that have the power right now are ignoring that and plowing ahead with this agenda of tremendous change, global and in the world, in the nation and the Church,” said Bishop Joseph E. Strickland, whose notice of removal as the bishop of Tyler, Texas, was posted by the Vatican Nov. 11.
Strickland, now the bishop emeritus of Tyler, said his removal has freed him in a sense to be more forthright about the challenges he sees for the Church.
“I feel, in some ways, liberated to speak up even more,” he said. “The powers that be may not like that because it messes up their agenda, but my only…
