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The sole objection to what you write is that you are asking that the goalposts be relocated when the game is already three-quarters along. That is to say, the assumption of the priest's own validity has been taken for granted from the outset. The foregoing notwithstanding, that not all here present would stipulate to the validity of Novus Ordo ordinations is both (1) plain and (2) matter that has frequently been discussed and debated elsewhere.

On an unrelated matter, I would hate to find myself in a situation where whether I was to live or die depended upon my being able to pronounce your screen name correctly. As you are evidently an Irishman, I think it likely that you have heard of Brian Ó Nualláin, aka Brian O'Nolan, Flann O'Brien, and Myles na gCopaleen. Indeed, it was the sight of your screen name that called to mind a limerick he wrote seventy-odd years ago. Its import hardly requires glossing.

Said a Sassenach back in Dun Laoghaire,
"I pay homage to nationalist thaoghaire,
But wherever I drobh
I found signposts that strobh
To make touring in Ireland so draoghaire."

I never said that his user name was Irish. I said only that he was Irish—as indeed he is. The points that led me to the limerick, which has been a great favorite of mine for thirty years, were as follows: Irishman with unpronounceable screen name → famous Irish writer and wit → limerick mocking unpronounceable words by said famous writer.

I did say that I despaired of understanding how to pronounce his name, but the native language of the Irish is by no means the only one that can lay claim to generating unpronounceable names.

Try pronouncing "Mawrdew Czgowchwz" for a while, and then let me know how your lips and gums feel.