A Shepherd's Voice | Bishop Strickland

Catholicism is supernatural, or it is nothing. Bishop Joseph Strickland delivers a sobering reflection on the crisis facing the Church: not a crisis of liturgy, not a crisis of leadership, but a crisis of faith in the supernatural itself.Listen to the language surrounding the Church today. Listening. Dialogue. Accompaniment. Inclusion. Encounter. These words can have legitimate meanings. But Bishop Strickland asks: where is God in all of this? When we talk to one another, are we still talking to Him? When we listen, are we listening first to the voice of God—or to determine whether His revelation should be reconsidered?The Church did not receive the Gospel from a focus group. Truth was not given by consensus. Jesus Christ told the apostles: "Going, therefore, teach all nations." The task is not to reinvent the faith. It is to receive it, guard it, live it, and hand it on.Bishop Strickland warns that the supernatural framework has been dismantled. Sin has become a feeling. Repentance has become optional. The cross has become unnecessary. If the Church offers the world only what the world can already provide, the world has no need of the Church. The world cannot absolve one sin. The world cannot consecrate the Eucharist. The world cannot open heaven.The answer is not another program. The answer is Jesus Christ. Return Him to the center. Return to confession. Return to prayer. Return to the supernatural. And do not be afraid. The world needs the Church of Jesus Christ, not a church without God.More from Bishop Strickland here: https://pillarsoffaith.net/podcasts/HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

Once, every Catholic priest swore an oath against modernism. It was required from 1910 to 1967. Bishops, theologians, seminary faculty, all took it. Pope St. Pius X called modernism "the synthesis of all heresies." It was not a mild warning. It was a diagnosis of a spiritual sickness that would attack the very foundation of divine revelation.Today, ask the average Catholic what modernism is. Many will not know. Ask when they last heard a sermon about it. Many will say never. The solemn warning has become invisible, not repealed, not denied, but neglected into practical nullification.It asks the question that faithful Catholics cannot avoid: if modernism remains the synthesis of all heresies, why is it never preached? Why is it never taught?The answer is not anger. The answer is not despair. The answer is fidelity. Study the faith. Pray for the Church. Remain rooted in Jesus Christ, who is the same yesterday, today, and forever. The crisis is real. The warning was given. The question is whether Catholics will remember before it is too late.Support Bishop Strickland here: https://pillarsoffaith.net/podcasts/HELP SUPPORT WORK LIKE THIS: https://give.lifesitenews.com/?utm_source=SOCIAL U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://sjp.stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenewsJohn-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

Bishop Strickland, reflecting on the Passion and the saints, calls all to love as Christ loved: reminding us that true love isn’t just words or feelings but carrying real burdens. Whether it’s a suffering friend or a divided Church, every Catholic is called to pick up the cross for someone else. Through adoration, fasting, and quiet faithfulness, we share in Christ’s redeeming work. This is not optional. It’s how the world will know we are His.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews+++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with LifeSiteNews on social media: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews

In the wake of the tragic Texas floods that took over 50 lives, including many children, Bishop Strickland offers a powerful message of consolation and hope. Speaking directly to grieving families and communities, he draws on Scripture, the saints, and Church teaching to affirm that Christ does not abandon us in sorrow, but enters into it. The cross, he reminds us, is not an end but a ladder to heaven. This heartfelt reflection offers more than sympathy; it’s a call to unite grief with Christ and discover that even in tragedy, love and eternal hope remain.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews+++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

Drawing from Scripture, Bishop Strickland calls the Church back to its true foundation, challenging today’s reliance on political strategy, branding, and emotionalism in place of prayer, sacrifice, and the Holy Spirit. With urgency and clarity, Bishop Strickland warns against constructing ministries, liturgies, or movements on human ambition rather than divine fire. From the suppression of reverent worship to the embrace of secular ideologies, he urges Catholics to return to what sanctifies: obedience, penance, and the cross. Only by building with heaven’s tools will the Church fulfill its mission and hear, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

As the U.S. strikes Iran and war erupts across the globe, this thunderous homily draws a direct line between global unrest and the Church’s apparent relative silence in the face of heresy, moral collapse, and betrayal from within. While bishops promote women’s ordination and suppress the Latin Mass, the faithful are left waiting for clarity from Rome. Yet a remnant rises, through Eucharistic reverence, Marian devotion, and fearless truth. This is a call to spiritual arms: the real war is for souls, and now is the time to fight with Rosary in hand, heart in reparation, and eyes fixed on Christ the King.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews+++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

As conflict spreads across the globe, from Israel and Iran to China’s influence in the Church, Bishop Strickland addresses the moral and spiritual dimensions of war, betrayal, and silence within the hierarchy. Rooted in Catholic teaching, it challenges preemptive violence, warns against false allegiances, and calls the faithful to respond not with fear, but with prayer, truth, and fidelity to Christ. In a time of uncertainty, Catholics are reminded of their mission: to stand firm in faith and never forget that Christ’s Kingdom will not be shaken.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

Bishop Strickland reflects on the hidden presence of Christ, especially in the silence of the tabernacle, the sorrow of illness, and the confusion within the Church. Drawing on Scripture and the witness of the saints, he reminds the faithful that Christ is often closest when He seems most absent. True shepherds do not flee the cross, but remain with their flock in the darkness. For anyone feeling abandoned or overwhelmed, this is a powerful call to endure in faith, to pray in the silence, and to trust that Jesus suffers with His people and has not left His Church.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten

The living mystery of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—not as a poetic symbol, but as Christ’s glorified, wounded heart that still suffers from the irreverence and indifference of His Church. Drawing on Eucharistic miracles from around the world, scriptural insights, and saintly wisdom, the host reveals how the Sacred Heart continues to bleed from betrayal—through sacrilege, doctrinal confusion, and a lack of Eucharistic reverence. Catholics are called to console the heart of Christ through reparation, First Friday devotion, and unwavering fidelity to the truth.U.S. residents! Create a will with LifeSiteNews: https://www.mylegacywill.com/lifesitenews ****PROTECT Your Wealth with gold, silver, and precious metals: https://stjosephpartners.com/lifesitenews +++SHOP ALL YOUR FUN AND FAVORITE LIFESITE MERCH! https://shop.lifesitenews.com/   ****Download the all-new LSNTV App now, available on iPhone and Android!LSNTV Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lsntv/id6469105564 LSNTV Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lifesitenews.app +++Connect with John-Henry Westen and all of LifeSiteNews on social media:LifeSite: https://linktr.ee/lifesitenews John-Henry Westen: https://linktr.ee/jhwesten