by Admin | Dec 8, 2020 | Essays, News
Download Bishop Strickland’s Letter Dignitas Personae Joint Statement: Physician Support for Ethical Vaccines Measuring Moderna’s COVID-19 Vaccine: Press Hard for Ethical Vaccines
by Admin | Nov 16, 2020 | Essays, News
Download Dear Flock of Northeast Texas, As the Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Tyler, and shepherd of God’s flock in this part of the world, I want to address every man, woman and child who resides in the thirty-three counties that make up the Diocese of...
by Luke Arredondo | Oct 22, 2020 | Essays, News
Yesterday, Catholic and secular news outlets were reporting on a new documentary featuring Pope Francis, titled “Francesco” which has yet to appear in North America, but made its Vatican premier on Wednesday. The primary reason there has been so much discussion about...
by Bishop Joseph Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | Essays
As your bishop, I plan to offer a series of brief articles that I pray will be helpful to all of us as we approach the 2020 national, state, and local elections in November. Let me be clear, I have no intention of publicly endorsing any specific party or any...
by Bishop Joseph Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | Essays
The most important foundational teaching and principle of Catholic Social Teaching is that every human life is sacred from conception to natural death, because every man and woman is created in the Image of God. Further, there is a fundamental Right to Life, which is...
by Bishop Joseph Strickland | Sep 5, 2020 | Essays
In his World Peace Day message for 1988, Pope St John Paul II said: “Religious freedom, an essential requirement of the dignity of every person, is a cornerstone of the structure of human rights, and for this reason an irreplaceable factor in the good of individuals...