Bishop Strickland critiques the Pope's encyclical and I critique the Pope's critics! Fr Imbarrato

Added: 2026-05-28

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[00:05:50]Bishop Strickland critiqued the encyclical. So I want to talk about that and then I want to talk I want to critique Bishop Strickland's critique and then I also want to critique all of the Pope's critics.

[00:06:05]uh again as I do and I think you're going to find this a little bit different than what I've done in the past, but I think it's very important that we really look at what's going on and always call out the Pope's critics because um on the surface, the cursorary look, um they they may seem profound. they they may seem as if you know they have something to contribute that there's some legitimacy there but I think if you look into a little deeper you understand that there's no no logic no nothing reasonable nothing rational that this is just a a uh a willfulness on their part it's it it actually becomes about them uh instead of our lord and savior Jesus Christ and his authority on earth. Uh all right. So, uh let's get started as we do each and every single day. We start off uh by invoking St. Michael the Archangel. Defend us in battle. Be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray. And do thou, O prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world, seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.

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[00:09:32]So now I use my uh phone.

[00:09:39]Um, so Bishop Strickland posted trying to see last night at 7:00.

[00:09:54]At 7:00 he posted uh a critique of uh the encyclical uh Magnifica Humanitas.

[00:10:05]uh and uh yeah basically 7:00 last night and he said I feel it's important to address concerns regarding the recently released encyclical letter Magnifica Hmonas of the Holy Father Leo I 14th.

[00:10:22]Now I am going to speculate that and this is a distinction between me and and uh uh Bishop Strickland, right?

[00:10:33]Where our mindsets are, where our hearts are. Um I woke up yesterday morning and of course yesterday I critiqued the encyclical. Uh, I critique the encyclical from the place that I was going to have no problems with the encyclical, nor do I have any problems with the encyclical. Okay. I asked Grock to thumbnail to summarize to paraphrase the encyclical and I read the question that I asked uh I told you the question that I asked Rock in the context of traditional church teaching. Did it contradict church teaching? Uh, you know, give a summary of the encyclical, etc., etc., etc. I fully trusted that the encyclical would not conflict with Catholic social teaching, Catholic doctrine. Uh, and indeed it didn't. So, my mindset going in was I don't have to worry about the encyclical. I trust the Holy Father. I trust the Holy Spirit. I trust Christ. promise on earth and uh that this in cyclical is going to be okay and indeed it is okay. All right.

[00:11:54]Is it perfect?

[00:11:56]Is it perfect? Well, no.

[00:12:02]No. Is it divinely inspired?

[00:12:05]Well, that depends on what you consider divinely inspired. Do you think the Holy Spirit was moving within the Holy Father to write this? Yes. Do you think that the Holy Father wrote it perfection uh divinely inspired? Probably not. Um I as I read through it could find some things that could have been better, could have been said better. But you know what?

[00:12:41]we're going to get into that game, right? And of course, that's the the critics of the Pope are always looking to say, "Yes, this could have been said better. This could have been more complete. This could have been clearer."

[00:12:55]Um, well, you know, who do you think you are, right? Um, could you sit down and write that encyclical from scratch?

[00:13:03]Could you write an encyclical of this kind? I mean, I always marvel over the encyclicals of the church because I see them as divinely inspired because I'm saying to myself, you know what? I'm a pretty bright guy. I was the valictorian of my diacinetic class of my graduating class in the seminary. I mean, I I've always excelled in school. I write very well. Uh I uh maybe don't have as deep a thought as as in across the board as others. I don't consider myself a scholar. Um I don't consider myself an academic. I'm an activist. Uh but you know what? In short spurts, um I I can put out some pretty profound stuff. And I think that the Holy Spirit does inspire me quite often. I could not write one of these encyclicals. Not in my wildest dreams could I write one of these encyclicals.

[00:13:59]There's just there's absolutely no way.

[00:14:02]Um, so I have great respect for the Holy Father. I do trust the Holy Spirit is working through the ho the Holy Father.

[00:14:10]All right. And so that was my starting point yesterday and asking Groc to clarify for me if there's any concerns that I should have going in. All right. I wasn't looking for concerns, nor did I want to find concerns. But you can tell that Bishop Strickland, I feel it's important to address concerns regarding the recent released encyclical letter Magnifica Hmonas of Pope Leo I 14th. Okay? and and indeed I believe that he went in and uh uh with this idea that I'm going to find some things that are going to be problematic. Right? So the pastoral letter that he published yesterday is a Catholic discussion of the encyclical letter Magnifica Monetas.

[00:15:06]All right. Now, the first thing I want to say about this is the encyclal came out and I'm not done reading the encyclical. I'm not done reading the encyclical. It'll take me days, maybe weeks to read the encyclical, and then I'm going to read different critiques of the encyclical. Uh, and I'm going to formulate my opinion of the encyclical, and I don't think I'm going to have any major problems with it at all. again maybe some areas where I think he could have said something better or could have included something. All right, but uh I don't profess to uh say that the Holy Spirit is with me as opposed to the Pope or that the Holy Spirit's with me to the extent that the Holy Spirit's with the Pope.

[00:15:49]But in a matter of hours after this encyclical is released, Bishop Strickland read the encyclical, I guess, and we're going to we're going to look into that. Uh read the encyclical, prayed about the encyclical, and then wrote a critique on the encyclical. Uh I find that interesting. All right. I find that interesting. So I'm not going to read the whole thing, but I am going to read a couple of things. Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, as a successor of the apostles, now he's always reminding us that he is a successor of the apostles, right? This is u very interesting. People who doubt themselves tend to lay out the authority of which they from which they're coming from.

[00:16:43]Right? And he's always doing that. You don't you don't ever hear me talk about uh or or you never hear me talk about my curriculum vite in terms of my prolife work in terms of my life. I might mention it in passing once in a while, but you're not going to hear me say, "Oh, I have a masters in theology or I have three masters or you know those types of things." 30 years as a pro-life activist.

[00:17:12]uh you know uh uh you know it's it's I just don't go there. But he starts off there laying out his credentials. I have a solemn duty not only to preach the gospel but also help the faithful discern the spirits of the age in the light of the unchanging truth entrusted to the church. So so he wants to help us discern. Okay. All right. Therefore, I feel it's important to address concerns regarding the recently released encyclical. All right. Some have found parts of it. So, he he doesn't want to come out and say him. Some have found parts of it insightful and compelling.

[00:17:54]It's just been released. What What are you talking about, Bishop?

[00:17:58]Some have found parts of it insightful and compelling.

[00:18:03]Others have experienced a deep uneasiness while reading it. a concern that beneath many true statements, the document reflects a broader theological shift that risks placing man at the center in a way that obscures the primacy of God. Really, in a matter of hours, you've read the encyclical and discerned and weaned that some people have found it insightful and some people I made the prediction yesterday there's going to be some people critiquing it, all right, criticizing it. And of course, that's the truth. And I'll tell you what, this the the critiques are ridiculous, and so is yours because I'm going to lay it right out now. Bishop Strickland's critique of this encyclical is ridiculous. Okay? And I'll get to why.

[00:18:53]All right?

[00:18:55]So, he is actually creating the controversy here. Okay?

[00:19:06]It is with that concern for salvation of souls and fidelity to the Catholic faith that I offer the following reflection.

[00:19:14]Reflection. Now, he hasn't reflected on this.

[00:19:18]He hasn't reflected on this. He hasn't given deep prayer and discernment to this. He's writing this within hours of the encyclical coming out, him reading it, and I guess checking out different critiques of it.

[00:19:38]The recently released encyclical letter on artificial intelligence, transhumanism, human dignity, economics, war, and the future of humanity presents itself as a major reflection on the moral and social implications of technological age. Just that line there should tell you how deep the breadth and depth of this encyclical and in a matter of hours he reads it, discerns about it, reflects on it, meditates, doesn't go back and reread it again. See, the proper way of discerning is you're going to read the encyclical, then pray about it and reflect upon it.

[00:20:19]Maybe even go back and check certain parts like a jury, right? wants. So, can can we revisit this testimony? Can we have this testimony? Can we hear this testimony again? Can you explain this evidence? You know, they go back and then and then they they go back and they discern, reflect, meditate some, right?

[00:20:40]It it's it's it really is quite questionable.

[00:20:46]The deepest concern is not that the document says false things about humanity.

[00:20:52]Are you saying that the document does say false things about humanity?

[00:20:58]That's that's the least of your concerns. But that it reorders the hierarchy of truths by replacing by placing humanity, human flourishing, human dignity, and human relationships at the center in a way that risks overshadowing the primacy of God, sin, redemption, worship, and salvation.

[00:21:24]I want to get back to this another line here.

[00:21:28]Here the document speaks extensively about systems of power, technocracy, war, economic justice, manipulation, algorithm control, social fragmentation, dehumanization.

[00:21:46]And and in a matter of hours, you've got it all figured out. You're laying it out for us.

[00:21:51]But comparatively little is said about the original sin, concupisence, assault, personal repentance, moral culpability, judgment, hell, penance, and the eternal destiny of the soul. So he wants 2,000 years of Catholic teaching in one encyclical. This is the same crap that we get from the critics of the pope all the time. Everything the pope says has to include everything that Catholicism has taught from the be from the time of Christ. And if it doesn't say everything that Christ taught or everything the church has taught in 2000, it's deficient. This is the crap we get from John Henry Weston, from from uh Vigano, from from all the chronic critics, the bashers of the pope, right? This is how what they use to beat the pope over the head.

[00:22:44]right? That every time the holy father speaks or writes something. All right, we got this from Fiducia Suprecon. I mean, it's it's it's nons.

[00:22:56]It's absolute nonsense.

[00:23:10]I do acknowledge. Listen to this.

[00:23:14]I do acknowledge that this document is not devoid of authentic Catholic elements. Oh, well, thank you. Oh, is that your seal of approval, Bishop Strickland?

[00:23:27]Really? Is that your seal of approval? I do acknowledge that this document is not devoid of authentic Catholic elements.

[00:23:35]In other words, there's got to be he's saying, "Oh, well, there is some Catholicism in this document. This is embarrassing. It really is. Its rejection of transhumanism is strong and important. Its insistence that man must never be reduced to a machine or an algorithm is valuable. Well, thank you.

[00:23:53]Thank you for agreeing with the Holy Father. However, the issue is more subtle and therefore in some ways more concerning. The problem lies in emphasis, theological orientation, and anthropological focus. Right? So he just doesn't agree with what the holy father Maybe that's an encyclical for another time.

[00:24:15]Right?

[00:24:23]This is why faithful Catholics reading this document may experience not merely disagreement but deep spiritual alarm.

[00:24:32]The only one who's going to experience deep spiritual alarm in this document is chronic pope critics, chronic church critics like you, Bishop Strickland, John Henry Weston, Chris Jackson, Father Altman, soon to be Mr. Altman, right?

[00:24:49]All the constant naysayers, right? You guys find problems, all right, with this stuff.

[00:24:57]trying to find okay towards the end of the towards the end of his his his dissertation here. This is why discernment is urgently needed in our time.

[00:25:13]This is why discernment is urgently needed in our time. Well, Bishop Strickland, you had an opportunity to show us what true discernment is.

[00:25:24]true pondering in your heart everything before you come out with this critique.

[00:25:35]Catholic discernment the Catholic Church doesn't move in in hours or days or weeks or years or even decades and you're moving in a matter of hours.

[00:25:52]There's been no prayer here. There's been no discernment here. I love you know you ever get that. All right. So you're in a discussion with somebody.

[00:26:01]You're in discussion with somebody. All right. And and and I you ask them, you know, please pray about what I have just said to you, right? And then five minutes later they respond and say, "Well, after prayerful discernment, what for five minutes?

[00:26:18]for five minutes. You prayerfully discerned.

[00:26:23]No, there's a there's a serious problem here, right?

[00:26:28]I I will tell you this that yesterday morning after I asked Rock that question, right, to critique the encyclical, was it anything against the church or was it in keeping with church teaching? if there was some critical elements to that encyclical that came out in me asking Grock those questions, right? And again, I went through the whole Grock summary for you and all right, didn't seem to be any problems. If there were problems, I would not have done yesterday's video.

[00:27:05]If there was concerns, I would have looked into the concerns. I would have prayed about the concerns. Are these concerns? because of some selfishness or self-centeredness or narrow thinking on my part, a heart problem on my part or their true concerns here, right?

[00:27:27]But I didn't find any problems and and looking at the critiques of other people, right? I don't find now let let's get to his critique here.

[00:27:44]here. Th this is this is now this is a slap in the face.

[00:27:49]Listen to what he says. The world does not need a new religion centered on humanity. The world needs the gospel.

[00:27:58]That's his last words because after that is a prayer. May our lady, seed of wisdom, destroyer of heresies, intercede for the church in this time of confusion. May she help us remain faithful to her divine son so that in every age, in every trial, we may proclaim with clarity and courage Jesus Christ yesterday, today, and the same forever.

[00:28:22]Destroyer of heresies. The world does not need a new religion center. I didn't I missed this the first time I read I read this. I guess maybe I only gave a cursory glance to the bishop's dissertation, but the world does not need a new religion centered on humanity. The world needs the gospel.

[00:28:39]Well, I consider this this this encyclical in keeping with the gospel and I I guess Strickland sees it as a new religion. And then he's asking the destroyer of heresies to intercede for the church in this time of confusion. So I guess he feels that this is heretical.

[00:28:55]Who does Strickland think he is?

[00:28:58]You know, again, the bitterness of somebody removed from his office, all right, and unwilling to to do the self-reflection necessary to understand why he was removed from his office and the problems that he has and that maybe he has a heart problem, right? Um, but let let me let me get to you. All right.

[00:29:17]What I said, okay. All right. in regards to this.

[00:29:22]All right.

[00:29:33]A couple of thoughts. The bishop talks about the importance of discernment. He discerned, pondered like the blessed virgin Mary this document for mere hours before criticizing it. And then he criticizes aspects of it without a single direct quote from the document does not quote the document.

[00:29:57]So the areas that is problematic I think do justice to a critique.

[00:30:07]You're going to quote that sentence or paragraph that's problematic and then critique it. Not make these general criticisms without any specifics.

[00:30:22]He has these veiled general criticisms, blanket criticisms, all right, without any reference to the document, quotations from the document.

[00:30:35]So completely out of context.

[00:30:39]This is Catholic. This is how we're going to do things here.

[00:30:43]This is in keeping with the tradition of the church.

[00:30:49]It's It's not good.

[00:30:51]It's not good. All right. Now, let's look at some of the responses.

[00:31:01]Your grace, just as you seem to have no hesitation in subtly casting suspicion on the Holy Father and his magisterium, you should hardly be scandalizing that some of us remember that Provost long before becoming Leo I 14th judged the situation in Tyler serious enough to remove you. Given the trajectory of your public statements, perhaps he did not misjudge the matter after all.

[00:31:38]Now, Hart Ponder says, "Rubbish. Removed from office is not proof of doctrinal error. By many objective measures, Bishop Joseph Strickland led a strong and Orthodox dasis." All right. Well, now you know it's, you know, raising concerns about confusion. The church is not the same as rejecting the papacy.

[00:31:58]Church history is filled with bishops and saints who allegedly who Oh, this is the same crap. Just just the same crap.

[00:32:07]All right. And thank God this this guy pushes back, right? No one objects to legitimate theological concerns. The problem begins when raising concerns slowly become a permanent framework of suspicion to the pope. the council, the bishops, and the church's living mysterious. This is not clarity. This is poor ecclesiology. And frankly, that's precisely why he was removed. Amen.

[00:32:29]Exactly right.

[00:32:50]The church has been infiltrated long before that. Stop judging those who are sick and tired of the church not being purged of it.

[00:32:59]Okay, this is all. Let me go back to the ironically this piece contains seven examples of not this but that framing.

[00:33:16]one of the clearest hallmarks of AI style writing in student work. Five examples of this rather than that framing as well as All right. So, so there's people here claiming that AI wrote this.

[00:34:00]So that has an argument breaking out over to whether uh I counted that Strickland made 14 either or fallacies.

[00:34:18]I wonder if a bishop who wanted to faithfully criticize the pope would wait a day or two to consider the questions more deeply.

[00:34:42]So, I didn't see this ahead of time, but this is exactly correct, right?

[00:34:48]He went into this looking for error, looking for problems, doesn't quote the document, and comes up with it. This This is friends. This is this is serious stuff.

[00:35:05]Love you, Bishop. I am still pondering this is cyclical.

[00:35:13]First, you're a fraud. This was written by AI and I I don't know. I'm not going to critique that.

[00:35:24]You just don't like the number of times Pope Francis was citing you too cowardly to state it plainly in his critique.

[00:35:46]He does not quote One complete line from the in cyclical to give context to his criticisms.

[00:36:24]He fails.

[00:36:42]I'm just going to leave it at that. So, you know, this is a problem, folks. uh you know and again we we need to we need to understand what's going on here. It's easy to see those people who uh harbor wickedness, harbor evil in their hearts. Uh let's let's look at I I I I posted a couple of other things. Oh, I lost somebody here. Oh well.

[00:37:52]Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. I can't even imagine Catholics facing Jesus someday after spending their daily lives criticizing his church on earth every day. How do they think they're going this is going to play out, right? I mean, seriously.

[00:38:11]Seriously, h how can you criticize the church and the pope every single day and think that it's going to play out well for you? It's not going to. It's not going to. How you going to explain it to Jesus? I used to use that phrase all the time. How you going to explain that to Jesus? How you going to explain that you're constant critic of the pope, constant critic of Christ Church on earth when you see Jesus face to face?

[00:38:33]Well, father, you're going to have to explain. I'm going to have to explain everything that I say and do. But what I'm going to have to explain, all right, is the years that I was back and forth, right? One foot in and one foot out. But then our Lord is going to say, "Well, at least when I slapped you upside the head, you woke up." Wasn't the first time I slapped you upside the head, but at least you finally woke up. Um, and he may may call me out on my lack of charity towards these setap schismatics, one foot in and one foot out people. All right? But surely I'm not going to have to answer for anything other than defending the pope. And do you think that Jesus is going to uh do do you think he's going to condemn me for defending the pope? I hope not.

[00:39:17]You know, again, two key aspects of my retired priestly ministry. Defending the pope, defending the magisterium, defending Christ's authority on earth, and defending the pre-born, right? All right. And so, uh, yeah. Uh, I'm going to do a lot of reparation. I'm doing reparation every day. All right. Pope Leo, we love you. All right, let's pray for the pope, bishops, and priests.

[00:39:42]Father in heaven, we thank you for your son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his death and resurrection has given us the hope of eternal happiness with you.

[00:39:48]Father, send your holy spirit upon the pope, all bishops, and all priests that they may be for us bold witnesses of faithful love for the church and remain for us examples of your son, our lord Jesus Christ. Amen. St. Joseph, St. Steven, St. Felipe interce the pope all bishops and all priests especially in her hour of need our lady of Guadalupe and see for the conversion of the world the end to abortion amen look at let's pray for each other's trials and tribulations and also uh your intentions and my intentions but I have to cut this short all right um uh and I apologize although I've been on 40 minutes already but look it pray for me I'll pray for you may almighty God bless you all father son holy spirit Amen. Mass mass homaly eucharistic adoration coming up in a little while. So please stay with us. Go out into the world my friends.

[00:40:37]Give them heaven. And again you know pray as we do each and every single day for each other. This podcast is about coming together and praying with each other for each other. We usually do more prayers than I'm doing now. Uh there's a reason why I have to go. Uh and uh well like I said just pray for me and I'll pray for you. Go out into the world my friends. Give him life. Give them heaven.