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(LifeSiteNews) – On this week’s episode of The Bishop Strickland Show, Bishop Joseph Strickland offers reflections on his participation at the Dodger Stadium reparation rally and comments on the new Instrumentum Laboris (Working Document) released earlier this month for the Synod on Synodality this October.
Reflecting on his participation at the Dodgers rally, Strickland said he partook in the event because of the blasphemy the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence do to the Cross. “It’s bad enough to mock the nuns, and that’s terrible, but the greatest blasphemy of that … horrid dance around … a man on the Cross to mock Christ in that way. … Talk about ‘God will not be mocked,’” Strickland said.
“God is a loving God,” Strickland added. “And this … really proves that to me, because He wants every heart to return to the Sacred Heart of His Son.”
“They will know Christians by their love, and … it’s not this fake love we hear so much about, but a love that is sacrificial,” he continued, noting that half of those attending the rally said that they travelled to be there. Remarking on how those attending also held images of the Sacred Heart and Our Lady of Guadalupe, Strickland added that “it’s such a great image of how we need to speak up. Not in the way of the world; we need to speak up as the Mystical Body of Christ with love, with clarity.”
“I really think [the rally] will go down in history as a significant moment of people beginning to awaken to the evil that we’re seeing, to the apostasy and the blasphemies, even sadly within the church, and we’ve got to be clear that Christ is Truth Incarnate,” Strickland said.
His Excellency also offered commentary on the new Instrumentum Laboris from the Synod of Synodality, which discusses a need to “welcome” polygamists, the divorced and remarried, and LGBT-identifying people into the Church.
Strickland said that while Catholics should indeed be welcoming, he offered the caveat that “welcoming [such people] to Jesus Christ means repentance. It means changing. It means awakening to the truth that [Christ] is the Truth Incarnate. He’s the Face of Truth.”
His Excellency further gave commentary on LGBT ideology in the context of a quote from Cardinal Robert Sarah he retweeted, saying that those who are involved in such relationships have the free will to be in them, but that if the Church “is going to embrace them as they are … it’s taking us all down.”
Strickland also remarked that those who identify as LGBT lose themselves in their identity. “If God’s taken out, we don’t know who we are,” Strickland said, commenting also on transgenderism. “It comes from evil, and it comes from disconnecting from God. And to let that masquerade as love and inclusiveness … it just doesn’t make any sense.”
Later in the episode, Strickland discussed a new film starring Jim Caviezel called Sound of Freedom, dealing with child trafficking. Strickland noted that there will be a viewing of the film in his diocese and that human trafficking is “truly diabolical.”
“We have to name the evil influence that that causes a child of God,” he observed.
“We always have to remember even the people doing this are beloved of God. God has not given up on any of us. … Human trafficking is one horrible iteration of what it means to give in to the diabolical. … It’s just so destructive, and we have to speak against it. We have to do anything we can to stop this destruction of humanity.”
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