Catholic site The Pillar reports:
Joseph Strickland invited priests this month to join a “prayerful community” of fraternity, while criticizing Pope Francis for apparently failing “to reject the siren call of sodomy.” The invitation came in a letter distributed by the former Bishop of Tyler, Texas — given to priests who attended a March 19 gathering of Catholics at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Resort.
Strickland’s letter comes more than a year after the bishop was removed in November 2023. Since his removal, the bishop has appeared twice outside of U.S. bishops’ conference meetings, leading the rosary and greeting supporters.
The bishop did not explain directly his charge that Pope Francis and other clerical Church leaders “refuse to reject the siren call of sodomy;” it is not clear whether Strickland was suggesting that Francis has himself engaged in homosexual activity.
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There’s much more raging about “manly purity” and “malignant and virulent” sodomy being “like an acid eating away at the Church.”
Strickland has the support of QAnon anti-vax nutbag and anti-LGBTQ activist Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano.
Bishop Strickland: “As we lift up Pope Francis and all the bishops in prayer, we must do so with abundant charity but also with unyielding clarity in the truth.”https://t.co/KMgkoUdgId
— The Pillar (@PillarCatholic) March 28, 2025
NEWS: The Vatican announced Nov. 11 that Pope Francis had effectively fired Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland, a firebrand prelate who called synodality “garbage” and endorsed a video that attacked Francis as a “diabolically disoriented clown.” https://t.co/2kTkYUUSqe
— NCR (@NCRonline) November 11, 2023
Bishop Strickland Urges Brother Priests to Rebuke the ‘Rot of Sodomy’ Attacking the Churchhttps://t.co/97ZCcOU4wq
— Complicit Clergy (@complicitclergy) March 28, 2025
.@TaylorRMarshall to @JackPosobiec: “Bishop Strickland is the man of God … Unfortunately, he has been singled out by infiltrators in the Vatican who wanna, I believe, make an example of him because Pope Francis is initiating the Synod of Syndal.” pic.twitter.com/RHIDB6ouVf
— Human Events (@HumanEvents) September 12, 2023