4th public support of Bischop Vigano for Bischop Strickland

And still no support for Bishop Rey, also visited in 2023, but he, because of his appalling laxity in his duty of discernment and certainly not for his doctrinal firmness.

Bischop Vigano : "Eleven years ago, on this very day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, I had the honor of informing Msgr. Strickland-as I was then Apostolic Nuncio to the United States- that Benedict XVI had appointed him Bishop of Tyler. The time has come to rediscover the sense of the "fullness of the Sacred Order" by exercising the Episcopate to the point of heroism: Our Lord will judge us, not those who abuse their power to destroy the Church and persecute Her good Pastors. "Proclaim the Word, insist at the proper and untimely time, admonish, rebuke, exhort with all magnanimity and teaching" (2 Tim 4:2)."

Arcivescovo Carlo Maria Viganò on X

Asked if he would resign if Francis asked him to, Bischop Strickland said no. “As a basic principle, I cannot resign the mandate given to me by Pope Benedict the XVI”, he said.

He added, “Of course that mandate can be rescinded by Francis, but I cannot voluntarily abandon the flock that I have been given charge of as a successor of the apostles.”

Strickland Won't Go "Voluntarily"