{"id":1259004,"date":"2023-09-13T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T20:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1259004"},"modified":"2023-09-15T00:38:33","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T05:38:33","slug":"reports-of-forced-retirement-prompt-defiance-from-bishop-strickland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1259004","title":{"rendered":"No forced retirement from Bishop Strickland"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"TYLER – The Religion News Service<\/a> reports that as rumors swirl that Pope Francis may ask for the resignation of Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland, the firebrand conservative who oversees the Diocese of Tyler in Texas said he has heard nothing from the Vatican but signaled he would not give up his post voluntarily. According to public Vatican records, Pope Francis met on Saturday with Archbishop Robert Prevost, prefect of the Vatican\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Dicastery for Bishops, and Archbishop Christophe Pierre, the papal nuncio, or ambassador, to the United States, among others. What the three discussed in the meeting was not made public, but a conservative-leaning website, The Pillar, has claimed the meeting touched on whether to ask for the resignation of Strickland, who has stoked controversy in recent years for everything from resistance to COVID-19 vaccines to criticizing the pope. The Vatican did not immediately respond to requests to confirm The Pillar\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s account of the confab.<\/p>\n

Rumors of Strickland being asked to resign, amplified by LifeSiteNews and other right-wing Catholic websites, come after an apostolic visitation to Strickland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s diocese in June, a rare disciplinary investigation by the Holy See. The visitation, in turn, followed a November 2021 incident in which Strickland was privately chastised by Pierre during a meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Reached by email on Tuesday, Strickland told Religion News Service he was unaware of any resignation request from the Vatican, saying, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have received no information on this from Rome.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Asked whether he would resign if the pope asked, Strickland suggested he would resist, possibly forcing the Vatican to remove him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153As a basic principle I cannot resign the mandate given to me by Pope Benedict the XVI,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he wrote. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Of course that mandate can be rescinded by Pope Francis, but I cannot voluntarily abandon the flock that I have been given charge of as a successor of the apostles.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d John Beal, a canon lawyer and professor at the Catholic University of America, said via email that a pope can remove a bishop against the bishop\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wishes, adding that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is no procedure that is laid down for such an action.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Beal said a bishop \u00e2\u20ac\u0153could be \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcdeprived\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (privatio) of his office as a penalty following a penal trial for some canonical offense,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d although the scholar expressed doubts as to whether Strickland has done anything that rises to such a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153punishable offense.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TYLER – The Religion News Service reports that as rumors swirl that Pope Francis may ask for the resignation of Catholic Bishop Joseph Strickland, the firebrand conservative who oversees the Diocese of Tyler in Texas said he has heard nothing from the Vatican but signaled he would not give up his post voluntarily. According to … Continue reading No forced retirement from Bishop Strickland<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":1259008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/bishop-129x175.png","fifu_image_alt":"Reports of forced retirement prompt defiance from Bishop Strickland","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 20:35:18","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/09\/bishop-129x175.png","fifu_image_alt":"Reports of forced retirement prompt defiance from Bishop Strickland","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1259004"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1259130,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259004\/revisions\/1259130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1259008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1259004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1259004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1259004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}