Columnist: Bishop Joseph Strickland
The SSPX: A Love Story
“… If I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.” (I Corinthians 13:2) In moments of great tension within the Church, we must remember that every ...
Bishop Strickland: A Catholic Discussion of the Encyclical Letter, “Magnifica Humanitas”
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, As a successor of the Apostles, I have a solemn duty not only to preach the Gospel, but also to help the faithful discern ...
Bishop Strickland: An Emergency In The Church
The recent report issued by Study Group 9 of the Synod on Synodality is deeply alarming and stands in direct contradiction to the constant teaching of the Catholic Church regarding human sexuality, ...
Bishop Strickland Statement on Vatican Welcoming Female ‘Archbishop’ of Canterbury
Images and reports have been circulating showing an Anglican woman “bishop” offering a gesture of blessing within the precincts of St. Peter’s Basilica. For many among the faithful, this has ...
Bishop Strickland Courageously Proclaims The Truth While The Hirelings Cower
When the World Demands Compromise March 18, 2026 In these days of great confusion, many faithful Catholics are feeling unsettled – some even shaken – by the intensity of political ...
WATCH: Will He Find Ten?
There are moments in history when corruption is just whispered about. And then there are moments when it is exposed. We are not living in a moment of rumor. We ...
Bishop Strickland: To Whom Shall We Go?
Silence in the face of confusion is not humility. It is negligence. Brothers and Sisters in Christ, There is a question in the Gospel that is not asked gently. It ...
Bishop Strickland: Watchmen at the Altar
When Silence, Confusion, and the Loss of the Sacred Endanger Souls My brothers and sisters in Christ, There are moments in the life of the Church when a shepherd feels ...
Bishop Strickland: A Pastoral Reflection on the Border, the Child, and the Demands of Charity in Truth
It must be said plainly and without evasion: when Church institutions become financially entangled with government programs, when large contracts replace personal charity, when ministries depend on state funding to ...
WATCH: The Shadow of the Manger is a Cross
We are still in Christmas. The Church insists on that. She stretches the feast across days because the mystery is too large to be taken in all at once. The ...
Pray for the Traditional Intentions of the Holy Father
I share the Traditional Intentions of the Holy Father once again. They are an excellent measure of any papacy. Give thanks for the ways that Pope Leo is promoting these ...
WATCH: Bishop Strickland – Unity Without Truth Is A Façade
My dear brothers and sisters, Tonight, as a watchman on the wall, I am looking not at the storms of politics or the tremors of nations, but at the horizon ...
Bishop Strickland’s Scathing Rebuke of Modernist Bishops
Dear Faithful Catholics, These words came to me after awakening this morning. They are words I should have said to break the silence after my intervention at the USCCB meeting ...
Bishop Strickland: The Truth About Vatican II
The years since the Second Vatican Council have tested the faith of pastors and the patience of the faithful. A bishop today inherits not a tranquil vineyard but one shaken ...
WATCH Bishop Joseph Strickland: The Voice That Could Not Be Silenced
“The Voice That Could Not Be Silenced” The Watchman’s Lamp August 29, 2025 My dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Today Holy Mother Church commemorates one of the most sobering ...
Bishop Strickland: Follow-Up To My Earlier Statement on Bishop-Elect Hennen
Many faithful Catholics have expressed concern over my recent comments regarding Pope Leo XIV’s appointment of Fr. Thomas Hennen as Bishop-elect of Baker. I write now not to backtrack, but ...
Bishop Strickland: No More Lavender Mafia!
Why would Pope Leo appoint a bishop whose record is openly celebrated by those who reject the Church’s moral teachings? With the appointment of Fr. Thomas Hennen, bishop-elect, as bishop ...
Bishop Strickland: The Lesson of Sodom and Gomorrha
Today’s reading from the Book of Genesis confronts us with one of the most sobering moments in Sacred Scripture: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrha by fire and brimstone raining ...
Bishop Strickland: In the Battle Between Life and Death, the Time for Compromise is Over
Bishop Strickland delivers a fiery wake-up call, declaring that the battle between life and death is no longer just outside the Church, it’s within it. Drawing from Scripture and Evangelium ...
Prayer for Pope Leo XIV
O Lord Jesus Christ, Eternal High Priest, Thou hast permitted Pope Leo XIV to ascend the Chair of Peter at a time of great confusion and suffering for Thy flock ...
