We sadly witness today something unprecedented in 2,000 years of Church history ~ an assault on the truth by a Bergoglian Papacy which shields predator clerics, formally approves pagan rituals (the new Mayan rite Mass) and promotes sodomy (a la James Martin, S.J.) even as it censures and removes from office holy and faithful prelates simply for adhering to traditional teachings and morality. It would seem that the ‘Pope of Mercy’ has little mercy to spare for those who cross his agenda.

This past March he removed Bishop Daniel Fernandez Torres of Arecibo, Puerto Rico from his lawful See, providing no reason or explanation in what Bishop Torres decried as “a totally unjust action.” It appears that the good bishop had irritated the homo-friendly Archbishop of San Juan and the Vatican Politburo (formerly known as the Curia) by defending conscience objections to the onerous vaccine mandates being pushed onto the Puerto Rican clergy and religious. Apparently the ‘Church of Accompaniment’ quickly morphs into the ‘Bully Church’ when the issue is no longer basic morality but climate change, the environment, or invasive medical interventions.

Last weekend another Bergoglian lightning bolt fell from the sky, landing on the head of another faithful pastor, Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas. The bishop was unceremoniously removed from his office by diktat literally the day before the 400th anniversary of the treacherous and brutal martyrdom of St. Josaphat, the Ukrainian bishop killed for his tireless work to heal the schism between Rome and the Greek Orthodox believers. Like St. Josaphat, Bishop Strickland’s offense seems to have been a deep desire to reconcile factions, in this case traditional Latin Mass Catholics with his mainstream flock. As the good bishop explained, “I didn’t implement Traditionis Custodes (Bergoglio’s motu proprio intended to countermand Pope Benedict XVI’s Summorum Pontificum permitting wide use of the TLM) because I can’t starve part of my flock.”