If you're suffering from indigestion as a result of Thanksgiving turkey/stuffing/yams/pumpkin pie overload, you might want to stop reading right now. I get excited when I see a bishop brandishing a Louisville Slugger. I'm hoping that he's going to smash a couple of those Pachamama statues, but alas, that's rarely the case these days. It's more likely that he's going to take a swing at Catholic dogma instead. Bishop Rick Stika of Knoxville made waves on social media the last week of November 2019 by making some outlandish statements on Twitter regarding the worship of Jesus during Mass. As of the time of this posting, you can't find those direct quotes on Twitter (they've been taken down, it seems), but as they say, "The Internet is forever." Here they are for your consideration: OK, so there's that. Odd. Very odd. And certainly heterodox. Why would a bishop even say such a thing? Is he one of those post-Vatican II ...
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