I thought this would make a good subject for a thread. What could be more important? If all the bishops consecrated using the new rite of episcopal consecration, are not bishops, then all the priests that they ordain are not priests, whether ordained in the new rite or the old. Benedict XVI was consecrated a bishop using the new rite.
Anyway, to your earlier statement, which I suppose casted doubt on the validity of Archbishop Cordileone's consecration, there are plenty of excellent, detailed and thorough studies by the SSPX and others that show the new rites are valid.
From Article : Why the New Bishops Are Not True Bishops
http://www.novusordowatch.org/nobishops.pdf"I completed the article on March 25,2006. I noticed later that this date was the
fifteenth anniversary of
Archbishop Lefebvre ’s death. This I considered providential, because the Archbishop himself had personally told me in the 1970s that he
considered the new rite of episcopal consecration invalid"
"In the summer of 2005, a group of French traditionalists published the first
volume of
Rore Sanctifica, a book-length dossier of docuмentation and commentary on the Paul VI Rite of Episcopal Consecration. (
www.rore-sanctifica.org) The study, featuring on its cover side-by side
photos of Ratzinger and SSPX Superior General Mgr. Bernard Fellay,
concluded
that the new rite was invalid. (Three additional volumes have appeared
since.)"