EXCLUSIVE: Strickland sacking signals 'internal persecution of faithful Catholics'

An “internal persecution” of faithful Catholics is under way in the Church, a bishop has said.

Bishop Athanasius Schneider said the sacking of the Rt Rev. Joseph Strickland as Bishop of Tyler, Texas, represented a particularly unjust exercise of authority against a faithful and conscientious Church leader.

“This will go down in history as a great injustice against a bishop who did only his task in a time of confusion,” said Bishop Schneider in an exclusive interview with the Catholic Herald in Cambridge.