Thank you Gabriella. For those that do not want to waste 5 minutes of listening to him waffling, here is the ordaining bishop for the 4 seminarians back in 1995.

Bishop Geraldo Daniel Joseph Scarpone Caporale, O.F.M. †

Catholic Hierarchy gives that he was ordained in 1979, most likely in the new rite.

I am very curious; Servants of the Holy Family are purportedly sedevacantist, but why do they need to over and over again emphasise that their Bishops are in the Annuario Pontificio (i.e. part of the conciliar hierarchy)????

They are not sedevacantist

Thank you Gabriella. For those that do not want to waste 5 minutes of listening to him waffling, here is the ordaining bishop for the 4 seminarians back in 1995.

Bishop Geraldo Daniel Joseph Scarpone Caporale, O.F.M. †

Catholic Hierarchy gives that he was ordained in 1979, most likely in the new rite.

I am very curious; Servants of the Holy Family are purportedly sedevacantist, but why do they need to over and over again emphasise that their Bishops are in the Annuario Pontificio (i.e. part of the conciliar hierarchy)????

Are they?

About Us - Servants of the Holy Family (servi.org)

Unless I missed it, I see nothing about Vatican II or the Vacancy of the Holy See.

I think you may have missed the point, which was not the name.

If you are looking to understand what is going on there it is worth listening to the 5 minutes. You may also want to listen to the other parts in the series, but that sounds like a lot to take on for you.

If you look into them at all it is easy to see that they are not sedevacantists.

What was the point?  For him to say on one hand that they can't give out the name (without the "bishop's" permission...which they finally got only because a "Cardinal" asked for it) and, on the other hand, say that the Faithful have a right to know it (which of course I agree with 100%)? 

The whole thing is very strange imo, that video only confirms that it's all very strange.

Yes, I agree, in modern times it is strange to have a group of priests (and now bishop) fighting to maintain the Faith and finding validly ordained bishops to validly ordain priests (and now a bishop) in the traditional rite.

It is very strange and wonderful! I thought some people would like to see where they were coming from on this (since not everyone knows who ordained them) and this video does show some of that.

Here is another one of them defending more modernist nonsense: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6jHPiyrEC4/?igsh=cGw2MHNuY253bXJl

I don't know for sure what or why they did what they did, but everything about this whole episode is a real head scratcher.

Here you go: Monograph in Defense of Our Catholic Faith
and on the Consecration of
the Most Reverend Anthony D. Ward
to all Catholic Bishops, Priests, Religious and Faithful https://servi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/monograph-shf-2025.pdf

Here you go: Monograph in Defense of Our Catholic Faith
and on the Consecration of
the Most Reverend Anthony D. Ward
to all Catholic Bishops, Priests, Religious and Faithful https://servi.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/monograph-shf-2025.pdf

Thank you for this!

We attended Mass at Swiss Pines and later Phoenixville, PA for 2 years (1986-1988?) where the Carmelites came after the property was donated to the SSPX. Fr. Wards use to come occasionally. I always remember him for his long consecration. According to Mr. Ho, the sacristan, it was due to scruples and kept repeating the prayers over and over. Never saw him after that time.

I used to be one of his altar servers, back then he never ever repeated the prayers, and I don't know about scruples, but when he was a young priest he whispered the words of consecration very, very slowly and distinctly, which definitely did take a lot  longer than one would normally expect.

He would say them something like this -  "Hic....................est..............enim..............calix................... sán...gui...nis............... me...i" and so on for the entire consecration. From memory, the part I just posted would take him at least 15 to 20 seconds vs the typical priest who would say the same words in about 4 or 5 seconds. Seems like he had like a 6 or 7 second pause between each word.

Some 50 odd years ago he was well liked, we always considered him as one heck of a wise and knowledgeable young priest, and  he gave great sermons too. I fondly remember Fr. Ward was always, always running late. I wonder if he still is.