Hilary Gets It Right

This is where we are in this crazy world. A bishop has been “deposed” by a non-Catholic “bishop” of Rome for allowing the Mass to be said in his diocese. Really. Hilary with one el gets is right:

Hilary White; Sacred Art @hilarityjane

As usual the Catholic world has failed to see the reality, and are wailing and lamenting something that ought to be a cause for rejoicing.

Another bishop has been freed from under the Bergoglian bootheel. #BishopStrickland

(How, at this late stage, is errybody STILL so dumb?)

1:45 PM · Nov 11, 2023

Here’s what Cardinal Mueller said back in September—in part:

According to Catholic teaching, the Pope is in no way the Lord of the Church, but rather, as Christ's representative for the universal Church, the first servant of his Lord, who was to say to Simon Peter, who had just become the rock of the Church: "Get thee behind me (Italian indietro, the true indietrismo), for thou thinkest not what God wills, but what men will" (Mt 16:23).

The Pope has no authority from Christ to intimidate and bully good bishops modeled on Christ the Good Shepherd who, in accordance with the episcopal ideal of Vatican II, sanctify, teach and shepherd God's flock in Christ's name, simply because false friends denounce these good bishops to Francis as enemies of the Pope, while heretical and immoral bishops can do as they please or disturb Christ's Church every day with some other nonsense.

A bishop is a successor of the apostles, not a functionary of the bishop of Rome. My view is that Strickland should continue acting as bishop, regardless. Why would a real believer take orders from a non-believer acting, in any case, ultra vires?