1/13/26 - Bishop Joseph Strickland issues a timely reminder to Catholics who may have been taught, implicitly or explicitly, that Church history effectively began in the 1960s. Drawing from his recent podcast episode titled “When the Council Becomes the Compass,” he challenges the tendency to treat Vatican II as a reset button rather than what it truly was: a moment within a living, continuous tradition stretching back to Christ and the Apostles. Bishop Strickland warns that when councils are treated as starting points instead of reference points, the Church risks losing her memory, her confidence, and her doctrinal clarity. With pastoral urgency and historical grounding, he calls the faithful to reclaim the fullness of Catholic identity rooted in Scripture, Tradition, the saints, and the enduring Deposit of Faith, reminding us that the Church does not reinvent herself every generation, but faithfully hands on what she has received. More of Bishop Strickland’s content available at https://pillarsoffaith.net/