Tyler bishop signs appeal alleging coronavirus pandemic plot to create world government [View all]
TYLER — The leader of the Diocese of Tyler is drawing national attention after signing what has been described as a manifesto promoted by conservative Catholics that alleges COVID-19 is a pretext for creating a “world government.”
National Public Radio reported Friday that the appeal contained the signatures of at least two cardinals and a U.S. bishop, who was identified as Joseph Strickland, bishop of Tyler.
The Tyler diocese covers a 33-county region of Northeast Texas, including Gregg County.
The document is titled “Appeal for the church and the world to Catholics and all people of good will” and was authored by Archbishop Carlo Viganò, whom NPR identified as a former apostolic nuncio to the United States. An apostolic nuncio is an ecclesiastical diplomat, who serves as an envoy or permanent representative of the Vatican.
The appeal asserts that the COVID-19 pandemic is being used as a pretext to violate the “inalienable rights of citizens” and says that “public health must not, and cannot, become an alibi for infringing on the rights of millions of people around the world, let alone for depriving the civil authority of its duty to act wisely for the common good.”
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(Longview News-Journal)
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