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Tagged: schism

The Rise of Anti-Catholic Catholicism

Prior to my conversion to the Catholic faith, I witnessed various forms of anti-Catholicism — ranging from casual to extreme — within the Protestant milieu in which I grew up. Comments such as “Catholics are going to Hell,” “The Pope...

Is Strickland slouching toward schism?

On Monday, August 7, 2023, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, posted a link on X (formerly known as Twitter) to an article entitled “Veritatis Splendor vs. Amoris Laetitia” on the Crisis website. He provided a quote from the article...

The SSPX position: Defensible or Schismatic?

At a time when LifeSiteNews is reporting on parishioners “flocking” to the the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) following the cancelation of a diocesan Latin Mass in Corpus Christi, Texas, and Bishops Joseph Strickland and Athanasius Schneider are praising the...

The making of Bishop Strickland

Since the story broke on Saturday, the Catholic world has been abuzz with discussion about Bishop Joseph Strickland and the Apostolic Visitation conducted last week in his diocese of Tyler, Texas. Multiple sources have confirmed that the visitation was undertaken...

Strickland, Schism, Schneider and the SSPX

On Saturday, I made an update to my post about Bishop Joseph Strickland’s public rejection of Pope Francis’s “program of undermining the Deposit of Faith,” noting that he subsequently tweeted, “In these troubling times with so much confusion even from...

Contempt for Pope Francis is a long-term problem

I recently had an exchange with Dr. Mark Nowakowski, a traditionalist Catholic and talented composer (he wrote the score to Mass of the Ages), on our completely opposite views of Pope Francis. He wrote an article for the traditionalist website One...

Slander, EWTN, and Cannibalism

It has now been more than ten days since the release of the transcript of Pope Francis’s September 12 encounter with 53 Slovak Jesuits in Bratislava, and we have finally had a response from a representative of the EWTN network....

Flames

Is it our job to divide?

Is division a necessary part of being a truth-telling Christian? Some Catholics, including clergy, point to Jesus’ statement in Luke 12 as a clear indication that divisiveness is part of our calling as Christians: Do you think that I have...