As we all know, the Catholic laity are the sole living arbiters of all things that are truly Catholic. Always gotta be on the lookout for bad priests, since most of them are really bad, right?

Dear Incredulous,
Thank you so much for caring about the state of your fellow Catholics' souls.  It is a real threat and a heartbreaking reality that did not start with Huonder.  One might say that it is a Stark reality.

Oh my goodness....  That last part...  

Thanks much Incred.  That is truly a great post!

Isn't the penitent saying an act of contrition while the priest is saying the words of absolution?  How can one listen for the correct form while sincerely praying an act of contrition?

I was thinking this as well...  I sometimes hear a few words but not enough to hear more than "Absolvo the".  I guess that at least is a good sign?  😅

We pray our Act of Contrition out loud and so too should the priest pray an audible Absolution.

The purpose of re-forming and conditionally ordaining a Novus ordo priest is for their full understanding and competence in the Traditional Sacraments.  To do as the Church does.

If a Novus ordo priest is reluctant to be reformed and conditionally ordained... why should the trad laity trust them?

Their behavior indicates they are not fully committed to Tradition... or worse, they are a modernist infiltrator.

What exactly is the point of the OP and this whole thread?

Is someone alleging that Bp. Huounder or any of the other Novus Ordo Priests that now work in the SSPX are not saying the correct sacramental form in Confession? Or in other sacraments?

Is someone alleging any of them are unwilling to learn it?

I have no desire at all to avail myself of the sacramental ministrations of any Novus Ordo clergy who are not conditionally ordained by one of the SSPX Bishops, but that's because they might not be Priests, not because they deliberately mess with sacramental forms. I have no evidence any of them have ever done that, let alone enough evidence to start a discussion thread about it.

As a Traditional Catholic for the last 20 years, I have gone to Confession to SSPX priests, SSPV Priests, CSPV Priests, Priests from Saint Gertrude's in Ohio, and Priests from Bishop Sanborn's Seminary....EVERY, SINGLE, ONE OF THEM says the form of absolution in a semi-audible voice i.e., somewhere between "whispering" and "muttering", while I say the Act of Contrition.

None of us have any right to tell a Priest he "should" say the form out loud just because we want him to. That's how Traditional Priests do it.

Unless you have evidence, please do something more productive with your life than create threads like this.

We pray our Act of Contrition out loud and so too should the priest pray an audible Absolution.

The purpose of re-forming and conditionally ordaining a Novus ordo priest is for their full understanding and competence in the Traditional Sacraments.  To do as the Church does.

If a Novus ordo priest is reluctant to be reformed and conditionally ordained... why should the trad laity trust them?

Their behavior indicates they are not fully committed to Tradition... or worse, they are a modernist infiltrator.

This doesn't really make sense.  If a priest is of dubious validity, then what does it matter if they get the form of absolution correct?  There's never been any requirement for the priest to say the absolution out loud so the penitent can hear it.  Some priests perform the absolutely in a relatively-quiet voice while the penitent is saying the Act of Contrition.

Now, if your question were about priest who HAD been conditionally ordained but perhaps not properly "trained" ... but given a 3-week "crash course" at STAS before being unleashed on the faithful, that would be a different story.

If you're speculating that some might be infiltrators and would therefore deliberately NOT absolve the faithful just to damage souls, while it's theoretically possible, infiltrators tend to move around in the upper circles of the SSPX "hierarchy".

I think that you need to clarify your thoughts a bit here, since there seem to be several confused and overlapping concerns here.

What exactly is the point of the OP and this whole thread?

Is someone alleging that Bp. Huounder or any of the other Novus Ordo Priests that now work in the SSPX are not saying the correct sacramental form in Confession? Or in other sacraments?

Is someone alleging any of them are unwilling to learn it?

I have no desire at all to avail myself of the sacramental ministrations of any Novus Ordo clergy who are not conditionally ordained by one of the SSPX Bishops, but that's because they might not be Priests, not because they deliberately mess with sacramental forms. I have no evidence any of them have ever done that, let alone enough evidence to start a discussion thread about it.

As a Traditional Catholic for the last 20 years, I have gone to Confession to SSPX priests, SSPV Priests, CSPV Priests, Priests from Saint Gertrude's in Ohio, and Priests from Bishop Sanborn's Seminary....EVERY, SINGLE, ONE OF THEM says the form of absolution in a semi-audible voice i.e., somewhere between "whispering" and "muttering", while I say the Act of Contrition.

None of us have any right to tell a Priest he "should" say the form out loud just because we want him to. That's how Traditional Priests do it.

Unless you have evidence, please do something more productive with your life than create threads like this.

Let me ask first: 
If the priest doesn’t say an absolution pray, is the Sacrament valid?