ONE OF THE MOST HURTFUL ASPECTS OF IT ALL: Bishop Strickland’s shocking complicity and participation in this debacle is what is so enormously disappointing. I would never have believed it of him. That he would allow himself to be debased and his good name and sterling reputation to be used so diabolically as an instrument of division and disruption is unspeakably disconcerting. I pray he repents for his unwholesome, uncharitable and unwise words and actions, and apologizes to John Henry for the treachery of his back-stabbing betrayal. He, wittingly or unwittingly, partnered with those who sought to publicly LYNCH a good and faithful Catholic brother and layman, whose life and service has been devoted to the promotion and promulgation of Catholic truth, and the brave and courageous defense of the perennial Deposit of Faith. Bishop Strickland acted, spoke and participated in a manner not unlike what was done to him by the Vatican when they summarily and abruptly removed him as Ordinary of the Diocese in Tyler, Texas, which they carried out by working in cahoots with disgruntled modernist Priests in the Diocese who opposed the Bishop and clandestinely brought false and unprovable allegations against him and his episcopal leadership in closed-door, backroom meetings. The conspiratorial evil that was done to Bishop Strickland is the same exact evil that he himself helped to mete out to John Henry, who, like the good Bishop, was unworthy of it. Such treacherous deeds and words as the Bishop has displayed during this whole sad scenario are beneath his character as a Shepherd of Holy Mother Church and reveal an astounding lack of wisdom, discretion, discernment and integrity on his part. Hopefully he has learned a very painful — but essential — lesson from this, and has set a course for a 180-degree turn about, fully renouncing and abandoning the satanic pathway of chaos and destruction to those who are given over to such things. He shall remain in my most fervent prayers.