Describing Pope Francis’ papacy as a time of “confusion,” Bishop Joseph Strickland, the former bishop of Tyler, Texas, urged Catholics to pray for “clarity” and for the repose of the late Popes’ soul.

“It probably sounds a little negative, but I think it’s the reality [that] it’s been a confusing time,” Strickland said Tuesday on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “Certainly, when you look back to COVID and all of that, there’s been a lot of confusion in the world, but I think confusion would be a lot of what people will remember. 

“Sometimes confused in ways that made them angry, sometimes made them very hopeful, but still confusion, and I think that, really I hope for and pray for real clarity, for the church, for humanity, coming from the light of Christ, that the church brings us the truth that is Jesus Christ. So, I’d have to say that it’s been a confusing time, a time of turmoil.”

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