Bishop Robert Mutsaerts of the Netherlands voiced his support for Bishop Strickland, recently evicted without Catholic due process from his Tyler, TX, diocese. Strickland gets the crown of white martyrdom. Mutsaerts likened him to St. John, the only apostle who stood at the foot of the cross. insidethevatican.com photo To give you a sense of size, here are the facts. There are approximately 1.36 billion Catholics in the world. As of 2021, the Catholic Church in its entirety comprises 3,171 ecclesiastical jurisdictions, including over 652 archdioceses and 2,248 dioceses, as well as apostolic vicariates, exarchates, administrations, and prefectures, military ordinariates, personal ordinariates, etcetera. The Holy See (Vatican) is an independent country, acreage irrelevant. The population of China as of 2021 is approximately 1.41 billion. The population of the United States as of 2021 is approximately 332 million. I am a citizen of the United States, not the Holy See, but my allegiance is to both countries and no others.
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