It's Sunday

[Pope] Francis removed Bishop Joseph Strickland from the pastoral governance of the diocese of Tyler, Texas, and appointed Bishop Joe Vásquez of Austin to serve as a temporary administrator, The Vatican News reported.

Strickland, 65, has been a vocal critic of Francis in recent months, writing earlier this year in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that the pontiff is “undermining the deposit of faith.”

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Strickland also took aim at Francis’s recent meeting on hot-topic issues, including the integration LGBTQ Catholics, the potential for female deacons and access to the priesthood for married men.

Strickland also repeatedly spread anti-vaccine messages during the COVID-19 pandemic, while criticizing President Biden’s support for abortion rights.

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Francis ordered two U.S. bishops to conduct an apostolic visitation to Strickland in June, per the Vatican. The move came after complaints from priests and laypeople in Tyler about Strickland making unorthodox claims.

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[T]he recommendation was made after the visitation that the continuation of Strickland was “not feasible.” Strickland declined to resign from office upon being requested, prompting Francis to remove him.

I bet Ratzinger would have let him alone. Or promoted him.

In 2020, Strickland called the church “weak” and “not clear” and dared the pontiff to fire him.

  The Hill

And Frank took that dare.