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This is the first time I have read this blog.  And, I have a question about some of what they blog.  I will say, I do not really trust this blogger, I guess because I am a hardened trad who knows there are deceivers in tradition.   But, it reports this as of june 27 2015 :

http://pistrinaliturgica.blogspot.com/2015/06/anniversary-special.html

And, WOW, what a report it is! It's a game-changer.

According to this priest, who saw the one-handed imposition up close and personal,
(a) only one ordinand was defectively ordained in '76 (!!) -- the rest were ordained validly with two hands; and
(b) the archbishop thought about curing the single defective ordination but was advised that if he did so, people would then doubt his fitness.
This newly surfaced testimony is the most detailed to date, and it answers a lot of questions. First it tells us that Bishop Williamson is decidedly not cursed with a defective priestly ordination. (Some time ago, a commenter or two challenged us on this matter; we prudently replied that we only had information about "One-Hand Dan" and thus could not possibly remark on any other case. Well, now we all know the answer. Yes, we do!)


However, they don't provide the name of this priest witness who was there.  So, I consider it almost worthless, especially because I think this blog is somewhat connected with the sspv/cspv, and I have heard that they have conditionally confirmed +Williamson's confirmandi.  So, that "some time ago" response to a commenter this blogger talks about raises suspicion.  Because that means that they only had suspicion about Dolan, but yet they exercise positive doubt about +Williamson as well.  So, it is suspicious.

So, in sum, I have heard that the cspv conditionally confirms those confirmed by +Williamson.  However, june 27th 2015 is very recent, so perhaps they no longer conditionally confirm in the case of +Williamson.  And, in that case, that would be great.  
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