Bishop Strickland’s mixed signals

(Where Peter Is. Mike Lewis).

If Joseph Strickland — the former bishop of Tyler, Texas, who was removed from his post last November by Pope Francis — isn’t sedevacantist, he certainly has an odd way of expressing it. On his website today, the bishop published “A statement on Sedevacantism,” in which he writes, “I want to make it clear that I am not and have never been a sedevacantist, as most people who have read my pastoral letters should know.” Unfortunately this attempt at clarification does little to answer the pressing question:

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Bishop Strickland and his false prophet

(Mike Lewis. Where Peter is).

Bishop Strickland has used his social media once again to promote an anti-Catholic cause. This time, he promoted a schismatic group in his home state.

In my recent article about a rumored Vatican document about discerning apparitions and supernatural phenomena, I briefly mentioned a situation in the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Texas, where a group called Mission of Divine Mercy (MDM) was suppressed by Archbishop Gustavo García-Siller. In March, Archbishop García-Siller issued a decree removing the diocese’s approval of the MDM and removing the priestly faculties of the group’s leader, Fr. John Mary Foster.

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New document from the Vatican on Apparitions and Miracles?

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(Mike Lewis. Wherepeteris).

Yesterday, Edward Pentin of the National Catholic Register reported that the Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF), Cardinal Victor Fernandez, is finalizing a new document that will provide updated guidelines for discerning apparitions and other supernatural phenomena. If true, Pentin says that this forthcoming publication will be the first major Vatican statement dealing with miracles and supernatural events since a 2001 document from the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments entitled, “Directory on popular piety and the liturgy: Principles and guidelines.”

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