Bishop Joseph Strickland has been visited by two bishops from the congregation for the bishops.

This happened last Saturday night, roughly three days ago, and I thought what I was going to do

today was bring you an update. I have the reasonable means to believe that an update

was possible, would be possible. It turns out as just some commentator, I wind up with lots of

the capacities of an actual journalist.

And what I can say today is while theoretically speaking there are updates that are possible,

not only plausible, it's a bad situation for Bishop Strickland, and I wanted to do a promise show reviewing

the facts, compelling prayer, impelling prayer on Bishop Strickland's behalf, and giving you, I think,

the primary takeaway. And normally I give, I come before you an offer what I think are the primary

takeaways, but I think there's only one here. And it's a question not about Bishop Strickland,

but about Pope Francis himself. It's a question about the nature of a pope who proves to be a tyrant.

So that's what I promise today.

We're going to review the facts.

We're going to go over the grounds for that which would impel prayer on behalf of

this goodly bishop, Joseph, Bishop Strickland.

And then we'll talk about, I think, the real reasons why Francis is a tyrant.

And the one takeaway from this, the big question surrounding his pontificate, everything

points to it in this late hour in the Francis pontificate, everything points at this question about what is the deal with Francis.

And this episode with Bishop Strickland is just one more link in the chain.

And it's a big one because little diocese, it's the diocese of Tyler, Texas, in East Texas, a world

away from this tyrant pontiff who had, it was hell-bent and has been hell-bent on making a mess,

as he promised, the partisans who elected

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