What do you think about Fr. Ripperger?

1) His doctrinal, philosophical, theological, and psychological writings

He seems sound in many of the main parts, but he will unfortunately be fine with Vatican II and the current modernist occupants insofar at least as to their basic minimal claims to authority. He always quotes St. John Eudes about God punishing the laity with bad clergy, but perhaps this is even more then if many of them are invalidly consecrated or ordained?

2) His writings on exorcism and whether or not the experiences he recounts are true

It seems to me that anyone who invokes the name or Our Lord against demons with the proper authority or context can do some kind of exorcism, but I don't know for sure how all of that works, even though Our Lord said that those who casted out demons in His name were not against Him but rather for Him. 

I bet Ladislaus will post in this thread. Right, Ladislaus? I understand that there are issues with claiming authority over demonic spirits when it is very dangerous to do so.

In my experience, I have prayed the Deliverance and Auxilium Christianorum prayers. Perhaps they did not help and made things worse for me, but I'm not sure. I have not prayed them for some time.

I knew an old dioscesan exorcist decades ago ( he was validly ordained) and very few people even knew what he did. He was a bit of a curmudgeon, stayed to himself and didn't speak much at all. If you had to call him all he said was yes or no and then hung -up. I never got the impression he was rude, but just maybe burnt out and distracted.
It was apparent that what he did took a toll on him.
 I have a hard time with all of the celebrity exorcists today....is it that easy to fight the greatest angelic intellect that G-d created without battle scars wearing you down?
Or do you just jovially go on to the next youtube video? 

I knew an old dioscesan exorcist decades ago ( he was validly ordained) and very few people even knew what he did. He was a bit of a curmudgeon, stayed to himself and didn't speak much at all. If you had to call him all he said was yes or no and then hung -up. I never got the impression he was rude, but just maybe burnt out and distracted.
It was apparent that what he did took a toll on him.
 I have a hard time with all of the celebrity exorcists today....is it that easy to fight the greatest angelic intellect that G-d created without battle scars wearing you down?
Or do you just jovially go on to the next youtube video?

That can be a natural thing also.  I could see if you're a coroner, or an ER doctor or nurse, dealing all the time with grave injury and trauma ... that could burn you out and wear you down also.  It's got to be so hard to be constantly surrounded by great sorrow and pain, and also evil ... so that if you're an empathic individual, it will eventually burn your out, and it's a psychological defense mechanism to tone down the "response" to things, just to be able to cope with it.

You’re exaggerating his position on not only the amount of possession that occurs but also his remedy for it.

Oh, I am doing absolutely nothing of the sort.  I've listened to his talks.  I bought his book (now consigned to a landfill, thankfully).  Who said anything about "possession"?  You appear to be the one not understanding.  I'm talking about generic demonic attacks.  I am not exaggerating the pages and pages of lists he has in his book about the different demons, some types, some names (where did he get those?) ... which afflict people in different ways.  I've heard him speaking about demons causing financial problems, health problems, etc.  And the remedy for that is right in his book, in the form of imprecatory prayer, where the layman will issue commands to demons ... in cases where the demons afflict someone in their authority.

There's simply no theological foundation for this that, if I have authority over someone I therefore have the authority to command demons that afflict them.  None.  I have asked his apologists to provide the evidence, and they pointed me to some passages in St. Alphonsus and St. Thomas that Fr. Ripperger has cited, but they say no such thing.  So I'm still waiting.

Demons almost by definition go about defying God's authority to whatever extent they can or are permitted to.  That's what they do.  They are certainly not going to willingly obey my commands just because I have God-given authority over my wife or my son.  In fact, if I try to invoke that authority, they would rage all the more against me, since they hate the fact that I have God-given authority at all, and they hate the God whose authority it is.  It's only if God were to force them to obey, but we do not know that He does or will ... and it's an act of presumption to assume that He will without His having revealed anything along those lines to us, either directly or through the Church's teaching.

Now, if I invoke my God given authority to, say, (politely of course) command my son's Guardian Angel to take care of him, to ward off demons, and invoke the same authority to ask St. Michael or Our Lady to do the same, since my authority over my son is God's, they will honor that and obey, to the extent that they do not know it to run counter to God's will.

So, I've exaggerated nothing.  I wasn't speaking about possession, but about demonic attack in general, which can take many forms.  I've heard him speak about the many ways in which demons afflict people.  I see the lists in his book with all the types of demons, their names, etc.  I see him encouraging people to get curious about demons, try to find out which ones are afflicting your family and your loved ones.  I hear him speaking about how demons can cause all kinds of things, such as financial difficulties, and, yes, even flatulence.  AND he says very clearly that Catholics can issue commands to demons, and provides prayers for them to do exactly that.  Whether you do it once or do it 100 times per day, it matters nothing.  Fact is that he does promote this practice, and it's the foundation for his book, why it's so innovative, and novel, and nobody has thought of this before, except the Prots.

Oh, I am doing absolutely nothing of the sort.  I've listened to his talks.  I bought his book (now consigned to a landfill, thankfully).  Who said anything about "possession"?  You appear to be the one not understanding.  I'm talking about generic demonic attacks.  I am not exaggerating the pages and pages of lists he has in his book about the different demons, some types, some names (where did he get those?) ... which afflict people in different ways.  I've heard him speaking about demons causing financial problems, health problems, etc.  And the remedy for that is right in his book, in the form of imprecatory prayer, where the layman will issue commands to demons ... in cases where the demons afflict someone in their authority.

There's simply no theological foundation for this that, if I have authority over someone I therefore have the authority to command demons that afflict them.  None.  I have asked his apologists to provide the evidence, and they pointed me to some passages in St. Alphonsus and St. Thomas that Fr. Ripperger has cited, but they say no such thing.  So I'm still waiting.

Demons almost by definition go about defying God's authority to whatever extent they can or are permitted to.  That's what they do.  They are certainly not going to willingly obey my commands just because I have God-given authority over my wife or my son.  In fact, if I try to invoke that authority, they would rage all the more against me, since they hate the fact that I have God-given authority at all, and they hate the God whose authority it is.  It's only if God were to force them to obey, but we do not know that He does or will ... and it's an act of presumption to assume that He will without His having revealed anything along those lines to us, either directly or through the Church's teaching.

Now, if I invoke my God given authority to, say, (politely of course) command my son's Guardian Angel to take care of him, to ward off demons, and invoke the same authority to ask St. Michael or Our Lady to do the same, since my authority over my son is God's, they will honor that and obey, to the extent that they do not know it to run counter to God's will.

So, I've exaggerated nothing.  I wasn't speaking about possession, but about demonic attack in general, which can take many forms.  I've heard him speak about the many ways in which demons afflict people.  I see the lists in his book with all the types of demons, their names, etc.  I see him encouraging people to get curious about demons, try to find out which ones are afflicting your family and your loved ones.  I hear him speaking about how demons can cause all kinds of things, such as financial difficulties, and, yes, even flatulence.  AND he says very clearly that Catholics can issue commands to demons, and provides prayers for them to do exactly that.  Whether you do it once or do it 100 times per day, it matters nothing.  Fact is that he does promote this practice, and it's the foundation for his book, why it's so innovative, and novel, and nobody has thought of this before, except the Prots.

all authority is through Christ to command demons so your point “ if we have the authority to command them out we have the authority to command them to attack someone else “ is just false. No one assumes that to be so. And to ask who’s talking about possession 😵‍💫……. We’re talking about exorcist!!! They deal with possession. To thwart attacks, the greatest saints were attacked by demons constantly! This is of course common knowledge. So to the extent you can thwart them and petition to our lady and saint Michael is obviously in Gods hands. On this point fr Ripperger says nothing to the contrary. You say he encourages people to get curious about demons if as if it’s a bad thing. My generation was taught the whole notion was absurd and made up by religious institutions! How do you combat that without getting people curious about them. 

“Whoever listens to you listens to me; whoever rejects you rejects me; but whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”
18He replied, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. 19I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpions and to overcome all the power of the enemy; nothing will harm you. 20However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”
Do you consider anything that’s going on in the church good? Or is everything post 1960 just terrible? I know a lot of people will not say anything good about it. I just can’t believe there is no hope. Fr Ripperger and fr G Hesse were my two biggest influences so I have bias for them. And I specifically remember fr. Hesse saying you can study any Saint long enough and find errors in their teachings. So I bend more to the good than the bad. And again I have to make the point,  a woman was selling jarred farts online and they were selling them. If that is not diabolical I don’t know what diabolical is!!! 

It’s obvious if you are making bad decisions demons may not be the primary cause. I’ve never heard anything close In his lectures that would mislead any rational person to think otherwise.

What do you think about Fr. Ripperger?

I used to listen to Fr. Ripperger years ago, but his talks always felt as if somethings he said were off a bit, just not right, or something was amiss, not sure how to describe it, but then I came across this and have not listened to him ever since...

"...Hence, in this respect every Mass has an infinite value. The new rite of Mass is just as efficacious as the old rite of Mass in this respect since they are both the same sacrifice of Christ..." 

I used to listen to Fr. Ripperger years ago, but his talks always felt as if somethings he said were off a bit, just not right, or something was amiss, not sure how to describe it, but then I came across this and have not listened to him ever since...

"...Hence, in this respect every Mass has an infinite value. The new rite of Mass is just as efficacious as the old rite of Mass in this respect since they are both the same sacrifice of Christ..."

Yes, and there's this one presentation he made largely deriding Traditional Catholics as being proud and therefore more inclined toward impurity than others.  While there's most certainly a temptation to pride among Traditionalists, some examples he gave were how Trads look down on practices like Communion in the Hand, or (as above here), the New Mass, or "judge the Pope" (yeah, let's not judge heresy).  I get it if he had said, "well, they have this attitude that THEY are better than other people, forgetting that it was not by our merits that God spared us from the Conciliar Church, etc."  That's true, and would be an extremely valuable reminder.  But he basically said that unless you just consider Traditional practice to be your preference, and if you consider the Novus Ordo practices inferior, then you're proud.

He next starts meandering into borderline-scandalous territory where he talks about his experience as a Confessor that Traditional Catholics are more prone to impurity than others ... which he attributes to this pride he had just denounced them for.

Yes, God can allow falls into impurity to correct pride, but this nonsense about how as a Confessor he's decided that Trads are MORE prone to it ... it's just total garbage.  Those in the world, and the liberal Conciliars, the vast majority of them don't even GO to Confession.  When you have parishes of 10,000+ and the same 3-4 old ladies show up for the 30-minute Confession window each Saturday ... that's not exactly a good sample size there, Father.  But I guess maybe they are holy, since despite only those 3-4 at Confession you'll get close to the full 10,000 trotting up for Communion every week.  Well, between the fact that the majority have convinced themselves that they aren't sinning or that it's not a huge sin (since real sins is hating God and others), or they don't believe in the Real Presence or in the efficacy of Confession to absolve from sin, or else they're too embarrassed, or convince themselves that just saying the "Divine Mercy" chaplet gets you forgiven, no need for a priest, etc.  Sorry, Father, but the world is absolutely AWASH in impurity, and it's not somehow limited to Traditional Catholics.  At least Traditional Catholics admit that it's wrong, admit that it's sinful, admit that they need to confess, before going to Holy Communion, since they beleive in the Real Presence, and believe they would commit sacrilege if they went up there in a state of mortal sin, and have not applied the principles of Amoris Laetitia to discern their own internal forum into absolving them of all sin for their ongoing sinful activity, which they have no intention of repenting over since Bergs said you could keep going and still show up for Communion.

So, yes, Traditional Catholics are undoubtedly prone to impurity, but MORE prone than the rest of the world?  Give me a break.  Either he's living under some rock or he's just gaslighting.  Does Father Ripperger hear lots of Confessions from Novus Ordites anyway, being a Traddie type?  What's his sample size anyway.  If he DID occasionally hear Confessions in the Conciliar Church, are people hiding their sins, not fully disclosing them, or maybe it's only the ones that do not happen to be given to impurity that showed up, as being among thos 3-4 out of 10,000 that made it to his Confessional.

That speech was such a bunch of nonsense that I had to wonder whether he too was not a Trad gatekeeper and controlled (non-)opposition.  He certainly cannot afford to alienate a huge number of Conciliars, since that would in fact impact the grift potential, if he had to sell items to ONLY Trads and not the regular Conciliars if he were to have alienated the latter by coming down too hard and concemning the Conciliar usurper Anti-Popes.

Fr. Ripperger was ordained in '97 by an FSSP bishop, Slattery.  I am sorry, but he might not even be a priest.  That's a huge red flag for me.  All this talk about his theology, is he even a priest?