Since when do priests advertise?  I don’t know who Fr. Roberts is, but I know I don’t want him if he needs to market himself like a commodity.  I can’t imagine Our Lord or any of the Saints who were priests resorting to the Work Needed ads!

Fr. Marshall Roberts is on the market again.  Please warn those who may be unsuspecting.

Is Fr. Roberts is a valid priest, was he ordained by the SSPX? (P.S.- I know about his effeminate inclinations. )

Just another reason why the world needs large, stable Traditional fora like CathInfo with an online archive of discussions. Otherwise how will Trad Catholics, who are necessarily and fundamentally scattered all over the world, to communicate important information, like priests to be avoided and why?

In the olden days the Church Authorities would have taken care of things like this. But today, everything is off-grid, decentralized, and local -- like the wild west. A new priest can ride into town and people have no idea who the "tall dark stranger" is. All they can do is give him a shot.

Such an environment is only ideal for criminals and rogues. Good men (both cleric and lay) and law-abiding citizens do NOT thrive on such an inability to look up someone's history.

In those days, a priest would not have been "advertising" for an assignment.  If he wanted to go to another diocese, he would go to his bishop, and if the bishop judged it opportune, he could have been "loaned" to another diocese, with excardination from the old bishop, and incardination by the new bishop, being a possibility (but not a necessity).

Yes, Fr. Roberts' ordination is valid. He was ordained to the priesthood at Winona for the SSPX. He entered seminary at STAS, went to the ICKSP at Griciliano until tossed out for unnatural inclinations, and returned to Winona where he was ordained. He later left the SSPX again for the Society of Saint John, a s----ite cesspool. After that Roberts floated around as a diocesan and then vagus Dominican priest.

I have gone to a couple of masses of his when he was in Jacksonville. He is ef***inate in his mannerisms, but as a priest he is an excellent sermonist and his spiritual advice is very good. It is very unfortunate that he has fallen into the vice for which he has a weakness. I do think that he is fighting it. What can one do with an otherwise excellent priest that carries with him that weakness? The owner of the chapel that hires him would have to be like a father to him and watch over him and who tries to "befriend" him. On the other hand, his ef***inacy is a bad example to children, but so is the ef***inacy in other men who people consider "refined" like some French priests in the SSPX that no one suspects of anything, and people consider normal. It's a tough call, but if I was starting a chapel, I would hire him and watch him like a father.

I do believe that he was setup at Jacksonville because he was against the chapel being taken over by the SSPX. I pray for him, for it is a sad situation that he has been put into by his mistakes in attaching himself to bad company.

Nevertheless, I am perplexed that STAS ordained him (even while sending away many good men in that same class who IMO would have made fine priests).  It was no secret that he got tossed from ICK for writing love letters to a young man.  In fact, it's mind-boggling.

They send away ninety percent of the normal men who want to be priests as having no vocation, yet how do all the h--os tend to get ordained? Or were there also a hundred h--os who were kicked out who we don't know about?

He needs to be sent away and should not function publicly ... perhaps to some isolated house of prayer where he would not have any temptations to act on his proclivities.  He was quite credibly accused of having been caught kissing some man.  For that alone he needs to be sent away.

Nevertheless, I am perplexed that STAS ordained him (even while sending away many good men in that same class who IMO would have made fine priests).  It was no secret that he got tossed from ICK for writing love letters to a young man.  In fact, it's mind-boggling.

Ditto.  He could always be an on-call chaplain to nursing home patients and shut-ins.  I'm not being dismissive.  That's a crying need.  Sure do wish there had been a priest who could have come from time to time, even from some distance away (I'd have paid his way and provided lodging, I have an extra room) to give my father the traditional sacraments, and possibly even to celebrate a private TLM at our home for my family.

Along these same lines, my father had a huge entertainment console, bought in the early 1970s, elegant piece of furniture, which with a little ingenuity, could be repurposed into an altar for celebration of Holy Mass.  The television set is long gone (tant mieux!), Motorola Quasar lemon, but the shell remains.  We have it in an alcove room.

Looks something like this:  (not to hijack the thread, it just came to me, I wouldn't mind a thread on home altars)

I went to his Mass in Jacksonville early 2000s, may have been 2003 or 2004, and I don't recall anything one way or the other, just a solemn, reverent TLM.  That's been almost 20 years ago, but I don't recall any "ef***inacy" that would have jumped out at me. 

I knew him at seminary, and on a scale of 1-10, Fr. Roberts registers about a 17.