Is he a Diocesan Priest or a Priest with the SSPX?

I heard he was a Diocesan Priest, but that's hard to believe. I've listened to some of his sermons on YouTube and he seems to be one fighting the crisis in the Church. His Bishop just allows him to preach like he does?

Thank you.

His bishop exiled him after he went to a city council meeting and preached against gαy marriage.  He only offers the traditional Latin Mass.

He's a holy and pious man.  A quick google search will bring up many articles.  I hope that he leaves the conciliar Church and seeks a conditional ordination.  

He only offers the Latin Mass where?

How can he get away with this in the Diocese?

I don't understand.


I saw that Council Meeting video on YouTube...


What does exiled mean?  He is still doing the Latin Mass now?

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His bishop exiled him after he went to a city council meeting and preached against gαy marriage.  He only offers the traditional Latin Mass.

He's a holy and pious man.  A quick google search will bring up many articles.  I hope that he leaves the conciliar Church and seeks a conditional ordination.  

He only offers the Latin Mass where?

How can he get away with this in the Diocese?

I don't understand.


I saw that Council Meeting video on YouTube...


What does exiled mean?  He is still doing the Latin Mass now?

He's in a Ghost Town somewhere in Texas.  He was removed from his parish in El Paso by his bishop after the city council meeting.  Ironically, the faithful in the parish that he was transferred to had been praying for a Latin Mass for years.  I don't recall where I read it, so I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that he recently (over the last year or so) decided to only offer the TLM.  I could be incorrect.  As to how he gets away with it, I'm not sure.  Perhaps since he's in the middle of nowhere, the bishop thinks he's not doing much "harm."

Is the Latin Mass he's offering an SSPX Latin Mass or an Idult Mass?

The heart of the fight between him and the diocese concerns a sum of money ($3,000 I think) that the diocese is suing him for.  Apparently the diocese had taken (stolen..appropriated...take your pick) money he had collected for the construction or renovation of a TLM chapel.  So, knowing this was the diocesan plan, Fr. Rodriguez apparently started putting TLM chapel donations somewhere els besides the parish general fund.  Nobody ever accused him of using or even planning to use the money for any nefarious purpose, but since it was irregular the diocese came after him for it.  

He needs to leave that diocese.  Seriously.  They'll just continue to persecute him.  The nuncio and the Vatican think the Mexican people there was liberal Hispanic Bishops, so that's what they keep getting.    

Father Rodriquez is currently assigned to Presidio Texas. He offers his Masses at the Sacred Heart church in Shafter Texas which is about 15 miles from Shafter.  This location is about 250 miles from his original home posting of El Paso.
He has outstanding appeals and actions which are ongoing and active with Rome.
He simply works to expand the Kingdom of God on earth and in souls.
He came to Tradition by his own efforts and study.

He knows about the split in the Society but is not inclined to become involved in political and fraternal conflicts but his situation may change.
The new Bishop of El Paso will have to resolve the problems that Bishop Ochoa created before he was transferred. All monies and funds were accounted for but the law suit by Ochoa continues.

So the future is uncertain for him.  His moment is yet to happen.

I have known him for over ten years.

That lawsuit is one of the most scandalous things happening in the Church right now.

Probably unjust.
Certainly unscriptural.
Definitely damaging to the faith.


Ochoa...so hard to find anything nice to say about him.  

He was ordained by Cardinal Mahoney and was his protégé.  Enough said.

That lawsuit is one of the most scandalous things happening in the Church right now.

Probably unjust.
Certainly unscriptural.
Definitely damaging to the faith.


Ochoa...so hard to find anything nice to say about him.  

The same fate and worse has befallen thousands of good priests since V2 - it's all about Fr. Rodriguez attempting to preach the Catholic faith within the Conciliar establishment.

As Fr. Wathen puts it:

"The test is in what happens when one of your conservative priests ventures to tell the people the truth, when he begins not only to preach Catholic doctrine, but to condemn and warn against the false doctrines of his fellow priests and his bishop; when he begins to forbid his people to go to the other churches, and, especially, when he begins to offer Holy Mass as he is supposed to. Then, the Conciliar machine kicks into gear and manifests that, despite all its vaunted tolerance and openness, there is a limit, and there are some things which "we simply cannot allow!"; then the glove comes off the hand and the iron fist is clearly revealed."