BISHOP STRICKLAND: “CHRIST — NOT POLITICAL PARTIES — IS THE FOUNDATION”
Bishop Joseph Strickland
@BishStrick spoke to our reporter
@caracastronuova about the moral obligation to defend innocent children caught in war, conscience rights, and the deeper divide over how Zionism—and the political nation of Israel—are understood differently across Catholic and some Evangelical traditions.
“When we anchor ourselves to politics, we will eventually be shaken — because politics always shifts. But when we are anchored in Christ, we remain firm, even when the world trembles.”
A conversation for anyone trying to find their footing in a moment that feels uncertain.
00:00 – Introduction
00:26 – Introduction to Bishop Strickland
02:33 – COVID vaccines, mandates, and conscience rights
03:57 – On the Bishop’s recent Tucker Carlson appearance and speaking out against war
05:14 – On children that are victims of war: “I feel moral obligation to stick up for the little ones”
07:06 – On the Catholic Church’s principles on war
09:14 – On Viral X Post: “In these days of great confusion, many faithful Catholics are feeling unsettled”
12:23 – On conservative in-fighting and cancel culture
13:42 – On the Bishop’s X Post: “When we anchor ourselves to politics, we will eventually be shaken”
16:36 – Using the example of the Covid vaccine using aborted cells as an example of truth
20:27 – On the traitor Judas Iscariot
21:43 – “JESUS CHRIST IS LORD. Not Caesar. Not any party. Not any movement. Christ alone.”
22:15 – “Something is going on in the world right now that is beyond the control of man”
23:34 – Truth vs propaganda in today’s world and 21 and distortion of the truth
28:46 – On Bishop Strickland’s defense of Carrie Prejean Boller
29:30 – “The Catholic Church is not anti-Semitic because it does not embrace war or giving the entity of Israel a free pass.”
32:56 – On Zionism, the differences between Catholics and Evangelicals, the Third Temple, and global conflict
37:02 – Pope Leo’s leadership and his message on the war; disagreements with Popes
40:20 – Holy Week, Easter, and addressing religious freedom concerns in Jerusalem
43:38 – God First or America First?
46:48 – Bishop Strickland’s prayer for the world