A view of St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican, March 11, 2020.
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A view of St. Peter’s Basilica on the Vatican, March 11, 2020.
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The Vatican faraway from workplace Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas — an outspoken, conservative bishop who had brazenly opposed Pope Francis’ reforms and accused the pope of ”undermining the deposit of religion”.
Strickland was requested to resign on Thursday, which he refused to do, in accordance with Vatican Information. Francis later made the choice to take away the bishop and appoint the bishop of Austin, Texas to quickly oversee Strickland’s former diocese.
The transfer got here months after a ”visitation” by a committee of U.S. bishops which inquired into Strickland’s governance and management.
”The advice was made to the Holy Father that the continuation in workplace of Bishop Strickland was not possible,” Cardinal Daniel Nicholas DiNardo, Vice President, United States Convention of Catholic Bishops stated in a press release Saturday.
Strickland repeatedly criticized the pope’s work to make Catholicism extra inclusive and welcoming to the LGBTQ group and divorced Catholics.
He used social media, his radio program and his pulpit to criticize the pontiff for the character and tone of a latest month-long assembly on the Vatican that included dialogue of girls in ministry.
