{"id":1463542,"date":"2025-12-09T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1463542"},"modified":"2025-12-10T15:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:57:05","slug":"joseph-strickland-set-to-speak-at-grassroots-america-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1463542","title":{"rendered":"Former bishop to speak at Grassroots America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1463543\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/BISHOP-225x174.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/BISHOP-225x174.png 225w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/BISHOP.png 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>TYLER &#8212; The former bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Joseph E. Strickland, is set to appear Tuesday at a Grassroots America \u2013 We the People meeting, a prominent constitutional conservative organization based in East Texas.\u00a0According to our news partner KETK, the event, titled \u201cClosing Out 2025 with Conviction, Hope, and Perseverance,\u201d will be held at the Holiday Inn in Tyler. A food-and-fellowship buffet is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 6:25 p.m., with the meeting set to run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Organizers say book signings and additional speakers may continue until 9 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Strickland\u2019s appearance marks one of his most public returns to the East Texas community since his removal as head of the Diocese of Tyler on Nov. 11, 2023.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An apostolic visitation took place in June of 2023, ordered by Pope Francis, which led church investigators to recommend that Strickland\u2019s continuation in office \u201cwas not feasible.\u201d When he declined to resign, the Pope removed him and appointed Austin Bishop Joe V\u00e1squez as apostolic administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Grassroots America \u2013 We the People, which describes itself as the largest all-volunteer constitutional conservative citizen organization in Texas, networks with more than 350 America First groups nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s mission centers on uniting and educating citizens to advance what it calls the \u201cCause of Liberty,\u201d emphasizing Judeo-Christian values, limited government and traditional family structures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; The former bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Tyler, Joseph E. Strickland, is set to appear Tuesday at a Grassroots America \u2013 We the People meeting, a prominent constitutional conservative organization based in East Texas.\u00a0According to our news partner KETK, the event, titled \u201cClosing Out 2025 with Conviction, Hope, and Perseverance,\u201d will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1463542\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Former bishop to speak at Grassroots America<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":1463547,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/12\/BISHOP-225x174.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-06 14:47:28","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\/2025\/12\/BISHOP-225x174.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463542","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1463542"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463983,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463542\/revisions\/1463983"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1463547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1463542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1463542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1463542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}