If he walks like a priest and talks like a priest, then he is a priest until you prove he isn't.

Con men who pose as priests commonly prey on the Hispanic community. Usually they are Novus Ordo and sometimes they set up small chapels. They "walk and talk" like priests and make a living by performing fake baptisms and legal marriages (any person can obtain a license to perform marriages).

That said, Wiest exhibits behaviors not seen in legitimate Catholic priests.

A priest will show his ordination papers and will say where, when and by what rite he was ordained; Wiest refuses.

A priest who asks to work alone with altar boys will show his drivers license and submit his fingerprints; Wiest refuses.

A priest does not brag from the pulpit that:
"As a little child, St. Theresa came often came to play with me."
and
"If I become a saint it will be because of my great charity."
and
"Our Lady of Fatima said the Miracle of the Sun would happen again a second time (She said not such thing) and I was privledged to see it."

A priest does not make up stories and then change them.
For months his story was
"I first met Father Perez in Rome when we were both young Seminarians and I had nowhere to go and he let me stay for a period of time."
then after several repetitions of this story he changed his story to:
"I first met Father Perez in a small town outside of Florence at Christ the King Seminary when three seminarians and myself were on on way to Sloviakia and he permitted us to spend the night."
(This revision is more believable and the details of where and when Fr. Perez was in this small town is easily available online -- too bad Wiest hadn't seen it first before he made up his Rome fairy tale.)

He has also changed his age from 48 to 58.

He also changed his story about his cancer from happening in his last year of high school to his last year of law school at Yale (and no, not a remission, just a revision of his story.)

His response to the photo of the Budda altar in his home was that his privacy was invaded. (Yes, please allow the poor man to engage in Pagan ancestor worship in the privacy of the home we are paying for.)

Con men who pose as priests commonly prey on the Hispanic community. Usually they are Novus Ordo and sometimes they set up small chapels. They "walk and talk" like priests and make a living by performing fake baptisms and legal marriages (any person can obtain a license to perform marriages).

That said, Wiest exhibits behaviors not seen in legitimate Catholic priests.

A priest will show his ordination papers and will say where, when and by what rite he was ordained; Wiest refuses.

A priest who asks to work alone with altar boys will show his drivers license and submit his fingerprints; Wiest refuses.

A priest does not brag from the pulpit that:
"As a little child, St. Theresa came often came to play with me."
and
"If I become a saint it will be because of my great charity."
and
"Our Lady of Fatima said the Miracle of the Sun would happen again a second time (She said not such thing) and I was privledged to see it."

A priest does not make up stories and then change them.
For months his story was
"I first met Father Perez in Rome when we were both young Seminarians and I had nowhere to go and he let me stay for a period of time."
then after several repetitions of this story he changed his story to:
"I first met Father Perez in a small town outside of Florence at Christ the King Seminary when three seminarians and myself were on on way to Sloviakia and he permitted us to spend the night."
(This revision is more believable and the details of where and when Fr. Perez was in this small town is easily available online -- too bad Wiest hadn't seen it first before he made up his Rome fairy tale.)

He has also changed his age from 48 to 58.

He also changed his story about his cancer from happening in his last year of high school to his last year of law school at Yale (and no, not a remission, just a revision of his story.)

His response to the photo of the Budda altar in his home was that his privacy was invaded. (Yes, please allow the poor man to engage in Pagan ancestor worship in the privacy of the home we are paying for.)

Fr. Perez is a pretty intelligent priest.  
I just don't understand his lack of protecting the Faithful by better vetting priests he allows at OLHC.

I agree. It is mind boggling that Fr. Perez failed to ask Wiest to show his papers. Who supposedly ordained him? When? Where? In what rite?
On top of that, the laicized Colletti (who also was never asked to show proof that he was a priest) is a docuмented child molester who admitted his guilt with the agreement that he would be able to keep his retirement money as long as he never publicly represented himself as a priest. And if that's not bad enough, Perez covered up for Colletti when the diocese of Orange sent letters outing the pedophile. He covered up by saying from the pulput "Father Colletti has been called back to his diocese." Yeah, he was called back alright. The only priest who spoke the truth was Father Starbuck, who from the pulpit warned parents not to allow their children around Colletti. Let us pray that Father Perez will come to his senses and do the right thing to protect the children and others at the chapel.

Amen.

I was thinking of Wiest's proclamation that he would be performing a miracle soon.  If that is the case, perhaps the demonic is active within him and he may curse you if you publicly turn on him.

No true Catholic fears "curses" from possessed persons. Instead we pray for their deliverance from evil.

Why the inverted commas on the word curse? Curses are real so be sure you pray at a good distance. We are not to test God.

God's power is greater than the so-called "power" of demons.

According to Spain's experienced exorcist, Fr. Jose Fortea, "A curse is an action that is done to harm another with the help of demons. There are specific curses to kill, to cause one to be possessed, to make things go bad in business, and to make someone sick, etc. …Curses are effective only if God allows them to have effect.

This suggestion sounds like a setup straight from Mr. Wiest himself.

Nope, not Wiest.

But i fail to see why anyone who can point out so many diistinct issues with one chapel would stay.

Time to leave.

A couple of months ago I thought I had found a new home at this chapel. I left about 2-3 weeks ago after reading so many things about it on this forum.