Fr. Voigt is now saying Mass occasionally at St. Dominic's Chapel outside San Antonio, TX:
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We’ve known Fr. Richard Voigt for well over a decade. He is a good and faithful priest, in our opinion. Father is a Salesian, having served at least 25 years as a priest in the Novus Ordo, before finally touching down on the pre-Vatican 2 traditional Church. It cost him quite a bit to do so, but he stuck it out faithfully. cuмulatively, Father has spent 37 years in the priesthood. He was ordained by Cardinal Timothy Manning in 1978; but he agreed, at Fr. Joe Pfeiffer’s behest, to be conditionally re-ordained by Bp. Richard Williamson on December 21, 2013.
Father was invited to work with Frs. Pfeiffer and Hewko 3 years ago. Until very recently, he was associated with Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Seminary in Boston KY. Finally, however, Fr. Voigt got fed up with the situation there. He stuck it out as long as he possibly could, but eventually, a growing number of unfortunate incidents conspired together in forcing him to leave.
Father took all of his possessions with him when he left Pfeifferville a short time ago. That is to say, he took what physical property he owned. But, alas, a lot, if not most of the money he had when he came, he did not have when he left. He got quite a fleecing at the hands of a couple of the ‘usual suspects,’ shall we say. Let me share one incident illustrative of the fleecing he experienced. There were other incidents, to be certain, which helped to lighten Fathers pocketbook. They will be highlighted in future posts.
Earlier this year, a woman in California sold some stock. She informed Fr. Pfeiffer that the proceeds from that sale would be forwarded to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, as soon as she had them in hand. Their value amounted to $31,000.
Meanwhile, puzzlingly, though sufficient funds were not on hand, the OLMC seminary went ahead anyway with a paving project, which included a new basketball court for the seminarians and the paving of various roadways around the Boston, KY property. They hired a paving contractor from Indianapolis to do the work. The work crew arrived, ready to start the project, but, alas, no money on hand, or very little of it!
Fr. Pfeiffer needed some ready cash up front. So he put the touch on the ever generous Father Voigt. Fr. P had been able to count on Fr. V for money before, so he may have thought that he could go to the well one more time. Though Fr. Vogt had already donated, i.e. given, thousands of dollars to Fr. P on other occasions for different things, he told Father P that this time it must be a “loan” to be paid back as soon as the generous California woman’s money arrived. Father Pfeiffer agreed readily to the arrangement and the terms thereof. So Fr. Voigt opened his purse yet another time and loaned Fr. P practically every cent he had to his name. It amounted to $22,000 dollars. I’ll let Fr. Voigt tell the rest of the story in his own words from a recent letter he wrote to Fr. Pfeiffer:
“..We all knew that there was a check coming from the sale of stocks. This loan was given because the workers were there and the deal was clearly a good one. I gave that cash with the understanding that when the check came in I would have my funds returned. It didn’t happen that way, did it? Instead, the check came in and I found out only through Fr. Hewko that you received the money. When I asked you about it, you became like a Henry VIII telling me that all the money was gone. Then I was accused (by you) of lying concerning the amount that I could give. It was amazing to hear the rationalization come out of your mouth despite the fact that you know I had only $22,000 and I loaned it all to you. Now will I ever see that again? I wonder. One day you and the Mexican will have to stand before the Judge of all and answer for what you have done. You have stolen my funds and you seek to destroy my reputation. This is a sin…”In addition to the $22,000 Fr. Pfeiffer got from Fr. Voigt, he borrowed another $12,000 from his own mother. Then around the same time he asked the kind lady from California for an additional $6,000 by way of a loan. He got both those sums, which, when placed together with the $22,000 from Fr. V, came to around $40,000 dollars. Was all that money used for the basketball court and the other paving projects? Father doesn’t know to this day. All he knows is this: Both his mother and the woman from California got paid back immediately. Fr. Voigt is still out $22,000, every bit of savings he had to his name. What happened to it? Best to ask Fr. Pfeiffer, or, maybe, Pablo.
I wish that were the end of this sad tale, but it isn’t. Not by a long shot. It will continue in another post.
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