Bergoglio was ordained post-1968 and wasn't concecrated until 1992.  I have inferred that many of you, as am I, troubled by even so much as a converted "priest?" who has not been conditionally ordained, saying even a single Mass as a visiting priest at an SSPX chapel.  How do you square that with accepting Bergoglio hook, line, & sinker?  A layman is a layman folks--whether it's some sinister old creep like Ambrose likely out scheming solely for personal grandeur & gain, or whether it's somebody at the other end of piety duped into submitting himself to an invalid rite--the person's status remains layman either way.

I thought that the R&R/SSPX generally believed that the post VII sacraments are not invalid.

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Bergoglio was ordained post-1968 and wasn't concecrated until 1992.  I have inferred that many of you, as am I, troubled by even so much as a converted "priest?" who has not been conditionally ordained, saying even a single Mass as a visiting priest at an SSPX chapel.  How do you square that with accepting Bergoglio hook, line, & sinker?  A layman is a layman folks--whether it's some sinister old creep like Ambrose likely out scheming solely for personal grandeur & gain, or whether it's somebody at the other end of piety duped into submitting himself to an invalid rite--the person's status remains layman either way.

I thought that the R&R/SSPX generally believed that the post VII sacraments are not invalid.

Yes, they do believe they are valid - when Fr Cekada wrote his first article arguing for invalidity of the new rite of Episcopal Consecration two SSPX priests wrote responses arguing for the validity of the new rite (one of them was Fr Calderon I think).

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Bergoglio was ordained post-1968 and wasn't concecrated until 1992.  I have inferred that many of you, as am I, troubled by even so much as a converted "priest?" who has not been conditionally ordained, saying even a single Mass as a visiting priest at an SSPX chapel.  How do you square that with accepting Bergoglio hook, line, & sinker?  A layman is a layman folks--whether it's some sinister old creep like Ambrose likely out scheming solely for personal grandeur & gain, or whether it's somebody at the other end of piety duped into submitting himself to an invalid rite--the person's status remains layman either way.

I thought that the R&R/SSPX generally believed that the post VII sacraments are not invalid.

Yes, they do believe they are valid - when Fr Cekada wrote his first article arguing for invalidity of the new rite of Episcopal Consecration two SSPX priests wrote responses arguing for the validity of the new rite (one of them was Fr Calderon I think).

Yes...which just so happened to coincide with the first "pope" consecrated a bishop in the New Rite (Benedict XVI).   :scratchchin:  

Fr hesse can shed some light.

The point is this:

1. The New Sacrament of ordination, given the way they are changed is an act of schism by the Pope.

2. Therefore they ought to be judged in the same way the Church judges schismatic sacraments.

3. Given that the form of the New sacraments is more explicit than the Old form (ironically), they are therefore most certainly valid.

Compare the forms:

Latin Roman Rite:

["Perfect in Thy priest the fullness of thy ministry and, clothing him in all the ornaments of spiritual glorification, sanctify him with the Heavenly anointing."]

Novus Ordo Schismatic Rite:

 "And now pour forth on this chosen one that power which is from you, the governing Spirit, whom you gave to your beloved Son Jesus Christ, whom be gave to the holy Apostles, who founded the Church in every place as your sanctuary, unto the glory and unending praise of your name."

notice the governing spirit makes explicit reference to the power of jurisdiction.

So, treated as a separate rite of schismatics, it is most certainly valid, especially since what everyone is saying up to that point is: "We are going to make a bishop."

Novus Ordo Schismatic Rite:

 "And now pour forth on this chosen one that power which is from you, the governing Spirit, whom you gave to your beloved Son Jesus Christ, whom be gave to the holy Apostles, who founded the Church in every place as your sanctuary, unto the glory and unending praise of your name."

notice the governing spirit makes explicit reference to the power of jurisdiction.

That is actually what Fr Cekada questioned, according to him the expression ''governing Spirit'' does not uequivocally signify the priesthood and power of Episcopacy.

Question: Does the new sacramental form univocally signify the sacramental effects — the power of Order (the episcopacy) and the grace of the Holy Ghost?

These are the criteria Pius XII laid down for the sacramental form. Here again is the new form of Paul VI to which we will apply them:
“So now pour out upon this chosen one that power which is from you, the governing Spirit whom you gave to your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, the Spirit
given by him to the holy apostles, who founded the Church in every place to be your temple for the unceasing glory and praise of your name.”

The form does seem to signify the grace of the Holy Ghost. But “governing Spirit”? Lutheran, Methodist and Mormon bishops also govern. Can such a term univocally signify the power of Order conferred — the fullness
of the priesthood? The expression governing Spirit — Spiritus principalis
in Latin — is at the heart of the dispute over the validity of the new rite, for if it does not signify the fullness of the priesthood that constitutes the episcopacy, the sacrament is invalid.

While I do not claim that the new rite is invalid, there is certainly enough ground for a positive doubt about it.