Bishop Schneider: Strickland firing signals Vatican’s ‘internal persecution of faithful Catholics’

This article originally appeared in The Catholic Thing.
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Bishop Athanasius Schneider says the sacking of Joseph Strickland as Bishop of Tyler, Texas, represented a particularly unjust exercise of papal power against a faithful and conscientious Church leader: “This will go down in history as a great injustice against a bishop who did only his task in a time of confusion.”