Christians are “stepping away” from the political process and not voting, but “that’s the last thing we need to do,” Bishop Joseph Strickland told Newsmax Saturday. 

“It is a stressful time, and I think for Christians, Catholics and other members of the Christian community, we first need to pray to calm ourselves, to refocus, to look at what we truly value and let that be the lens we use for the choice to vote,” Strickland, the conservative priest who Pope Francis removed of the Diocese of Tyler, Texas in 2023 for his traditional teachings, told Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” 

He added that voting is a “responsibility as well as a privilege” allowing Americans to help select the nation’s leaders, so “I would say pray, pause, and pray, and then look at the national security needs and the good of the nation.”

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