The member "Johnnier" is none other than an SSPX priest, Fr. Raymond Taouk (pronounced "tooke"), an Australian priest who is ethnically Lebanese. He is about 5'5".

Fr. Taouk is notoriously against the Resistance. Fr. Chazal mentions him in a recent letter:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php/Letter-fo-Fr-Chazal

I began with Sydney having around thirty people interested in the resistance and several scattered groups nearby. Brisbane and Melbourne-Tynong are the biggest groups though, numbering kind of fifty people each, with a distinct reaction from the XSPX, leading basically to the same result. The  reaction of Fr Taouk in Brisbane is near hysterical, given the tune on his cell phones, the threats to the faithful, the refusal of absolution and even the slamming of the confessionnal door. Another Brisbane priest made an interesting comment when presented with complaints about the AFD of Bishop Fellay: "and so what? there are good things in Vatican II!".

He is also one and the same as Anthony Malleus, of Ignis Ardens fame.

For those who wonder how I came to this conclusion, I have a myriad of evidence, some of which comes from reports on the ground in Brisbane, Australia:
(In no particular order. In fact, some of the weaker evidence is presented first, so please read to the end!)

1. They all have the same favorite phrases: "necessary distinctions", "basic", "reality", "a little honesty", "grasping/grasp" (he loves this word!), "the Archbishop" (he says this a lot, rather than "Archbishop Lefebvre")
A. http://www.sspx.com.au/parish/brisbane/bulletin/2013/Twentieth-Sunday-After-Pentecost-Brisbane.pdf
Includes: "The Archbishop", "grasp", "basic" prudence...

B. http://www.sspx.com.au/parish/brisbane/bulletin/2013/Fifth-Sunday-After-Easter-Brisbane.pdf
This bulletin was the real doozy, right after Fr Pfeiffer's visit (the first resistance priest to visit Brisbane in April this year).  It contains the 1983 Long Island conference (Fr T loves citing this one... "Anthony Malleus" posted the exact stuff on IA around this time).  Coincidentally, Johnnier also referred to this conference on CI recently:
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=27744&min=47&num=3

C. The bulletin also has an item on Fr Themann's conference, titled "clarity amidst confusion".  Interestingly, Johnnier referred to this conference on CI, except it's "clarity amidst so much misinformation":
http://www.cathinfo.com/catholic.php?a=topic&t=27731&min=6&num=3

2. He misspells his own name. Not believable. He called himself "Jonny" in a PM, his CI handle is "JohnnieR", but his e-mail address is johnnyrivers975@[omitted].au No one would be that ambivalent about the spelling of his own name.
How often do I spell my name Mathew or Matthieu? And what man goes by "Jonny", yet uses a completely different spelling in his e-mail address? Wouldn't that cause countless lost e-mails? What's the point of an e-mail address if everyone's going to spell it wrong?

3. He claims to be "Jonny Riveria" in a PM, but there are NO men with the last name "Riveria" in Australia.

4. His "Johnny" name reeks of a pseudonym. Just the fact that he's using a name at all in his e-mail address is the equivalent of "protesting too much", as if he's trying to say, "This is my identity here. Please don't look for another one..." Besides, Johnny Rivers IS a pseudonym, albeit an obscure one. It's a famous rock star that many of us haven't heard of!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Rivers

5. The CI member Johnnier is posting from Australia -- specifically, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Right where Fr. Taouk is currently posted.

6. As for being Anthony Malleus, that's a no-brainer. IA has been completely shut down, so Anthony Malleus had to go somewhere. He was obviously interested in arguing against the Resistance on Trad Catholic fora. Is that going to cease just because IA shuts down?

7. Fr. Taouk was the only seminarian at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary (in the early 2000's) to have his own website. (He studied Theology at STAS, even though he spent his first 3 years at Holy Cross and was later ordained there. Holy Cross didn't offer Theology at the time). There were other "computer" guys, but none of them had a website. Fr. Taouk always loved apologetics -- his website was CatholicApologetics.info.  I just looked, and the website is still up.

8. As a very small side point, his website has been "Sestak-ized". The current Flash menu is unmistakeable Michael Sestak -- another diehard Bishop Fellay supporter (and Resistance hater), I might add.


So Fr. Taouk is known to be young (mid 30's now), online, with a love of Internet-based Catholic apologetics, and a disgust for the Resistance. He has always loved to be a "hammer of heretics" -- a malleus, if you will. He is stationed in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, which is where "Johnnier" is posting from. Their phrases are the same, and their beliefs/attitudes toward the Resistance are the same.

If Fr. Taouk isn't Johnnier, then he must have a twin brother.

Personally, Fr. Taouk is a very fervent man. He feels very strongly about that which he believes. That includes the Catholic Faith, as well as the "goodness" of the SSPX, or the "badness" of the Resistance. One thing I would say about him: at least he is not "worldly". But, like St. Paul pre-conversion, he is on the wrong side right now. Let us pray that the scales will fall from his eyes.

*Assuming this is true what Matthew posted*

Hello Fr Taouk! Welcome to Cathinfo!

May God bless you for celebrating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and dispensing the sacraments to faithful Catholics in Australia!

St. Thérèse's Prayer for Priests

  0 Holy Father, may the torrents of love flowing from the sacred wounds of your divine Son bring forth priests like unto the beloved disciple John who stood at the foot of the cross; priests, who as a pledge of your own most tender love will lovingly give your divine Son to the souls of men.

  May your priests be faithful guardians of your Church, as John was of Mary, whom he received into his house. Taught by this loving Mother who suffered so much on Calvary, may they display a mother's care and thoughtfulness towards your children. May they teach souls to enter into close union with you through Mary who, as the Gate of Heaven, is specially the guardian of the treasures of your divine Heart.

  Give us priests who are on fire, and who are true children of Mary, priests who will give Jesus to souls with the same tenderness and care with which Mary carried the Little Child of Bethlehem.

  Mother of sorrows and of love, out of compassion for your beloved Son, open in our hearts deep wells of love, so that we may console Him and give Him a generation of priests formed in your school and having all the tender thoughtfulness of your own spotless love.'

http://www.paxetbonum.net/pfp.html#15


I hope you can stick around Cathinfo.  Maybe add your name in the sig line identifying yourself as a priest (assuming you are allowed to do so)

I would be great to have a priest on the forum.  Then when the inevitable moral questions come up, instead of a dozen layman posting "Go see a traditional priest!" you could post that with authority and the original poster could perhaps PM you for further guidance.  This wouldn't preclude you 'jousting' with the resistance, if that is part of your internet apostolate.  :light-saber:


Luke

He's nothing like Anthony Malleus! Virtually every post by AM contained the word "nutters", and I just searched Johnnier's posts for the word "nutters", and there weren't any!

I can't believe Johnnier is AM. The priest thing seems unlikely too.

Before I got to this page, I had reached exactly the same conclusion:

AM used 'nutters' almost every day, without fail.   No exaggeration, almost evry post.   Their writing style is not similar.

Also, I thought AM was from the Deep South of the US.

Anyway, I don't see what purpose this expose fulfills.

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5. The CI member Johnnier is posting from Australia -- specifically, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Right where Fr. Taouk is currently posted.
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6. As for being Anthony Malleus, that's a no-brainer. IA has been completely shut down, so Anthony Malleus had to go somewhere. He was obviously interested in arguing against the Resistance on Trad Catholic fora. Is that going to cease just because IA shuts down?
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If Fr. Taouk isn't Johnnier, then he must have a twin brother.

Or maybe somebody "on the ground" halfway around the world has a beef with Fr. Taouk and would like attention to be drawn to him.

I don't buy any of this.  Mistakes in cyber-sleuthing and outing people happen all the time.  You have said you had little to do with Ignis Ardens.  I was there frequently.  I see no reason to say that A. Malleus is a priest, none at all.  Except for Dawn Maries says so.

my only reservation would be that 'johnnier's posts were not particularly 'educational' leaning more towards personal insults, i would have expected more if he had a priestly formation,  but maybe that was part of his m.o.?

Agreed, Frances.  I think that we should be adult enough to have open dialogue between SSPX and resistance types.

LOL.

We should not fear contrary opinions.  If we disagree, we should guard against any bitter zeal (the devil's favorite weapon against Traditional Catholics); if we feel that our brother is wrong, we should seek to correct him in charity and not just feel a need to justify ourselves and make ourselves feel superior.

Now Matthew just needs to out Father Cekada on this board.

He pointed such is the methodology of the resistance to seek to make any personal attacks on people.

You're contradicting yourself.
Calling someone Fr. Raymond Taouk -- which is it, an honor or a personal attack?