In an outrageous escalation of criticism, a prominent leader of the Synod has written of Bishop Strickland:
in his mostly migrant parish many families suffered deaths as a result of obeying their bishop.
The outrageous comment was echoed by another prominent liberal voice who wrote that Strickland has ‘blood on his hands’.
The deranged attacks jar with Strickland’s actual words, which were aimed at a particular brand rather than in general.
The attitude towards Strickland certainly juxtaposes with that given to Rupnik. The Synod leader mentioned has said that he wishes that artwork belonging to Marko Rupnik be preserved within churches as they are ‘works of grace’, while the other individual has commented that Rupnik should be dealt with ‘mercy and forgiveness’.
Marko Rupnik is accused of raping nuns and forcing them to drink his semen from a chalice as well as forcing them to engage in Satanic orgies evoking the Holy Spirit.
There are people losing their faith because of the behaviour of the Rupnik apologists. There are people keeping their faith but walking away from the institutional church because of the Rupnik apologists. There are people who have completely turned against the Synod, not just away from it, because it is the plaything of the Rupnik apologists, who also repeatedly plastered his ‘art’ all over the Synod website before they could no longer get away with it.
The Rupnik scandal has completely wrecked the credibility of the Synod and it will likely be a major lasting legacy of Pope Francis’s pontificate, by which all of his other decisions (such as the shutting down of Latin Masses) will be compared.
Bishop Strickland does not have blood on his hands, unlike Rupnik, who has blood on his, amongst other things.
Our church is hurting, victims are hurting, these injustices cannot continue.
