So there's this objectively evil situation that he is in large part responsible for and he wants to make a stand but he doesn't know where his next meal will come from. Big points for self-preservation, but it doesn't make him a good priest. Disowned by the SSPX? Orphaned? It doesn't mean he will take the right path. Good sermons, charismatic personality, what happened? Here's a few things: the seminary coordinator brings in rated R garbage for the seminarians. The seminary coordinator imposes himself on a certain woman who is intent on founding a convent and with helpful deflections from the likes of Fr. Hewko, her entire life savings are swallowed up in a situation she no longer wanted to be a part of. Fr. Pfeiffer brings in an imposter priest/bishop and even after the most thorough examinations regarding his fake docuмentation are published, he waits 3 years before making the only reasonable decision.
Where was his holiness when other people really needed it? Where was it when he wasn't saying Mass? No one knows. But when a priest is so reckless as to submit those under his care to his own faulty sense of comfort in the face of obvious corruption, deception and satanic interference, why should anyone listen to what he has to say? And as soon as Fr. Pfeiffer figures out he's not the Bishop in White from the published Third Secret or whatever strange destiny he's got planned for himself, I pray he receives in full measure the justice due him while he still lives before it's too late for his soul. Both of these men have used up all the good will they brought with them as traditional priests. It's too late for Fr. Hewko to play the good cop against Fr. Pfeiffer; he's been complicit for far too long.
Good points. Fr. Hewko has been complicit in many evils taking place at Fr. Pfeiffer's Boston, KY HQ.
I've mentioned before, that the faithful (especially women) are often fooled by outward expressions and mannerisms of piety by priests. Men look deeper. God looks deeper still.
For example, Fr. Timothy Svea (Institute of Christ the King) back in the 1990s had dozens of Trads (again, mostly women) gushing about his piety. He was outwardly very pious. More soft-spoken, didn't joke during his sermons like Fr. Brian Bovee (the other priest posted to the Institute's Rockford, IL location), he was very reverent during the celebration of Mass, had excellent custody of the eyes, talked a good talk about the Faith, etc.
But fast forward several years, and Fr. Svea fell into a scandal similar to that of many Novus Ordo priests. Yes, THAT scandal. Yes, I'm serious. Go ahead and Google it; it's all public information and public record.
http://www.bishopaccountability.org/assign/Svea_Timothy_E.htmWith apologies to Fr. Hewko, they actually remind me a lot of each other. They both have that religious, serious, quiet bearing (like they spent a few years at a monastery), both have a mostly bald head with grey hair, and both are a similar height and build. I'm not saying Fr. Hewko fell (or will fall) for the same particular thing as Fr. Svea, but Fr. Hewko has his own issues like supporting Fr. Pfeiffer in his grave sins.
Moral of the story: Apparent piety does NOT equal true holiness.