Moderator note:

I would like to start off this thread with this post:

Below is a highly relevant quote concerning the topic of this thread that is taken from the earlier CI thread "Restoring the Bastions: The Church Militant at War" contributed by "nipr" in 2013. This is very likely the best and most thorough presentation of this topic available. Those who read or contribute to this current thread ought to read it with feelings of humble gratitude to so fine a Roman priest as Fr. Marshall Roberts and then weep at the heartless ingratitude of men. The truth presented here concerning Fr. Roberts only makes this writer yearn to have the Catholics be rid of Jansenist heretics like "Pepe" even more.

And may the Good Lord forgive us for the many slanders contained in this current thread against His beloved Roman priests:  

Please read the following words most carefully and with an open mind and a respectful heart:



"I cannot watch this go on any longer without saying something. We went through this at Christmas and here we are again.

I realize most of you do not know Fr. Roberts. I understand your suspicion these days of any priest, especially one who has been accused of something horrendous. But I'd like to give you MY impression of Fr. Roberts.

I met this good priest last Fall. I was impressed from the first moment I met him at his chapel. I knew practically nothing of the allegations against him and after meeting him such suspicions never even crossed my mind.

Now mind you, in my working years I worked alongside openly gαy men because they happened to work for the companies I worked for. In a large city that is the case. So I have been well-acquainted with the characteristics of a gαy man.

In my years in the Church I have met priests whom I suspect were gαy because I saw the same characteristics in them.

I SEE NONE OF THIS IN FR. ROBERTS.

If there ever was a heterosɛҳuąƖ man who went by the book, it is he. There is NO funny business about him in any way whatsoever. I attend his Mass weekly and only regret that I cannot attend daily. His sermons are out-of-the-ballpark good--especially the one he gave for the Sunday near the Feast of the Sacred Heart about how little devotion there is to Jesus's Heart and how little loved He is. I haven't heard these kinds of sermons since I was a kid before Vatican II. He quotes Scripture. He quotes Canon Law. He refers to Tradition when asked why this or that or what to do in such-and-such a circuмstance. He is a walking encyclopedia of Church history, lives of the Saints, you name it.

I've been searching for 51 years for a priest to answer some personal (apply only to me) questions I've had and Fr. Roberts is the ONLY priest who has been able to answer them. Again, he quotes Jesus's words and explains how they apply in the situations I asked him about. No priest has ever been able to do this for me. AND HE MAKES PERFECT SENSE. The ability to guide a soul (and I understand I am not the only one) with such precision is totally incompatible with someone in the state of mortal sin. If you don't believe me, look in your theology books. It's there. I've gotten one crazy answer with no foundations for it from priest after priest until I met Fr. Roberts.

Not only do I know him from Mass and Confession, but socially as well. He is a delight to be around. I've spoken to him privately and in a group setting. He has a very well-rounded personality and his conversation is fascinating because of his intelligence and knowledge.

Father wears the full Dominican habit all the time. I do not know his standing in the Dominican Order. He has a Dominican Third Order group in Jacksonville, FL and is starting up a Discalced Carmelite Third Order group there as well.

I will tell you one thing: It is worth moving to Jacksonville, FL to have the God-given grace to have this priest for your Mass. I've seen 51 years of priests and this one is OUTSTANDING. He encourages us to take up our cross and follow Jesus, that the servant cannot be greater than the Master, that we should pray to become holy, that our attention should be focused on God dwelling within us (if we are in the state of grace and if not, to get to confession ASAP) and our eyes should be on Heaven and not on the things of this earth. He has told me many times to "accept suffering" as that proves love of God and to depend on Divine Providence to work out my difficulties in life. HE CAUSES ME TO REMEMBER WHAT BEING A CATHOLIC IS ALL ABOUT, which I thought I knew until I met this hard-hitter priest (in the sense of nothing is trivial if it offends God). And he will spend as long a time as needed with you in confession to set your soul at ease and he lets you ask as many questions as you want.

Now you can say this is emotional and not based in facts about the allegations, but let me say this: You can read the top theologian's books on what a priest should be and this priest is IT. I know. I've read the books and have been searching for such a priest all my life.

As for his possible "reformation" -- I can't possibly see what there could have been to "reform." (Pardon me if I am using the wrong term but if I try to go back to see what was posted I'll lose this page for sure.) We recently celebrated his 17th year of ordination. He recounted to us his history with the Society and the St. John's group, etc. As I recall, he said he didn't like what was going on at St. John's and left. I wish I had paid more attention but my mind was centered on how utterly deplorable it is these days that a good priest like Fr. Roberts should have to endure so many difficulties just to be a good Catholic priest.

I am suspicious of ALL priests as I've had some things happen to me in dealing with some that are too shocking to write here so I don't automatically place ANY priest on a pedestal just because he's a priest. I learned to not do that the hard way. I've watched Fr. Roberts for months just waiting for something shocking or unpleasant to happen and the more I get to know him, the more I admire him.

Let me say this: I've had cancer recently. I'm still in the time period when it is most likely to return. Should that happen, I hope and pray Fr. Roberts will be my priest when I'm on my deathbed. I want HIM to prepare me to be judged by God. I mean this sincerely. I don't know what higher recommendation I can give a priest."



Posted Jul 5, 2013, 8:36 pm

The website "In This Sign You Shall Conquer" (which supports Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer's Seminary) shows that Fr. Marshall Roberts is also part of the "Resistance"!  
See below the page where his sermons are available on this website, along with those of Bp. Williamson, Fr. Chazal and Fr. Hewko.  This association goes right back to July 2013......  

 
Father Marshall Roberts
Jacksonville, Florida

Sermons
 
 
June 2014
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CONTACT:
1-303-549-3047
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His Excellency Bishop Richard Williamson

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Father Damien Fox

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Father David Hewko

Sermons


Transcripts


 
 
Father Francois Chazal

Sermons


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Father Hugo Ruiz V. (Spanish)

Sermons


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Father Juan-Antonio Iglesias

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Father Joseph Pfeiffer

Sermons


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Father Marshall Roberts

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Father Patrick Girouard

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Father Richard Voigt

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Fr. Thomas Aquinas (Dom Tomas de Aquino)

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  Father Trincado

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http://www.newengelpublishing.com/exploiting-traditionalist-orders-the-society-of-st-john/

Fr. Marshall Roberts  Predator Priest

Fr. Marshall Roberts was another SSJ priest who resided with ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ predator priest Fr. Carlos Urrutigoity and Fr.Eric  Ensey at St. Gregory’s Academy from 1997 to 1999.    
According to the Vice-Rector, Father Patrick Perez, of Christ the King Institute in Gricigliano,  Italy, in 1993 Roberts was kicked out of the seminary when he formed an inordinate sɛҳuąƖ attachment to a fellow seminarian with whom he had become infatuated. Within 24 hours of the Vice-Rector being informed of Roberts’ designs on his classmate, who did not appreciate the attention, Roberts was looking for new living quarters. Roberts was eventually ordained by the SSPX in Winona by Bishop Richard Williamson and later became a founding member of the SSJ.  
While at St. Gregory’s, Roberts befriended a young man from the graduating class of 1999 who later became a postulant in the Society. In a very irregular arrangement, Roberts and the postulant   shared the same room and bed  in a housing unit on the SSJ property.
Exploiting Traditionalist Orders The Society of St. John
www.newengelpublishing.com [cached]

...
The Fraternity has also allowed Fr. Marshall Roberts to work at St. Michael's in Scranton.
The Fraternity of St. Peter is already being sued for negligence in the federal lawsuit filed by John Doe for sɛҳuąƖ abuse while he was a student at St. Gregory's Academy.
SOUND-OFF!
www.catholictradition.org, 24 June 2003 [cached]

Bishop Timlin has now apparently given permission to Fr. Marshall Roberts of the Society of St. John to find a new home outside of the Diocese of Scranton to "serve" traditional Catholics. As a result, an e-mail alert was sent out last week by one of the Latin Mass communities that was recently contacted by Fr. Roberts. I have attached the warning below.
 
24 June 2003

As a third year seminarian, Marshall Roberts was expelled from the Institute of Christ the King for proposing a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ relationship in a letter to a first year seminarian. The vice-rector of the seminary, who was presented with this letter, has confirmed this account. In addition, Mr. Rod Pead, the editor of Christian Order, who was a seminarian there at the time, has published in the August/September 2002 edition the following account of Marshall Roberts' expulsion:
...
Bishop Timlin, having performed no background checks on the SSJ members, allowed Fr. Roberts to serve as a chaplain at St. Gregory's Academy where Fr. Roberts attached himself to one young student in particular. Upon graduation, this student joined the Society of St. John. ...
All of this has been docuмented at www.SaintJustinMartyr.org/news/notices.html

Although I fully informed Bishop Timlin of Fr. Roberts' past misconduct, Bishop Timlin has continued to allow Fr. Roberts access to new hunting grounds. Bishop Timlin not only allowed Fr. Roberts to work at St. Michael's in Scranton, but he also permitted Fr. Roberts to teach religion at Bishop O'Hara High School in Dunmore, Pennsylvania from August, 2002 to February 2003. All the while Bishop Timlin has assured the faithful that he is in full compliance with the Charter.

Let Bishop Timlin know that we are watching him by contacting him at dio34@epix.net. And please circulate the warning below far and wide so that Fr. Marshall Roberts does not find a new flock to fleece.

Subject: WARNING! SSJ Priest from Scranton Hawking his wares!

Father Marshall Roberts has recently contacted [names withheld by request] in the South presumably under the pretext of "finding a home to serve traditional Catholics", allegedly, according to him, with the permission of Bishop Timlin.
I won't go into the details, but I thought that in the midst of scandals in the Church, it might serve the benefit of us all to know that Fr. Roberts, ex-SSPX and apparently ex-SSJ, according to a first-hand source with written information, was asked to leave the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest as a seminarian.
... I had an extensive phone conversation with Father Roberts

Third Open Letter to Bishop Joseph F. Martino
www.saintjustinmartyr.org, 15 May 2004 [cached]

Also appearing in the missal is Fr. Marshall Roberts, another predator priest of the SSJ, who was kicked out of the seminary of the Institute of Christ the King for proposing a ɧoɱosɛҳųαƖ relationship to a young seminarian. Roberts appears on page five with two young boys standing before him. Particularly ominous is the ubiquitous cartoon figure of a "guiding" guardian angel with his arm around a boy named "Adam.



Alleged predator priest is chaplain at Florida church

July 3, 2006
By Matt C. Abbott

Father Marshall Roberts, a founder of the suppressed and scandal-ridden Society of St. John (formerly under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Scranton, Pa.) is currently the chaplain of St. Michael the Archangel Roman Catholic Church in Jacksonville, Fla.
The church is independent of any diocese.
Dr. Jeffrey Bond, president of the College of St. Justin Martyr (which had been associated with the SSJ before separating — well prior to the Vatican-upheld suppression), said in a July 3, 2006 e-letter (edited):
In March 2002 I exposed Roberts as one of the predators of the Society of St. John. (See my original warning here.)
As a seminarian at the Institute of Christ the King in Gricigliano, Italy, Roberts was expelled in 1993 by the seminary’s then vice-rector, Father Patrick Perez. Father Perez expelled Roberts for writing explicit love letters to a younger seminarian with whom Roberts was enamored. The younger seminarian, who did not appreciate Roberts’ advances, gave the love letters to Father Perez who then saw to it that Roberts was dismissed from the seminary within 24 hours.
Roberts later found a happier home with the Society of St. John, where [priests] Carlos Urrutigoity and Dominic O’Connor gave Roberts the freedom to pursue a ‘particular friendship’ with a boy who had caught his eye. The object of Roberts’ affections this time was a student at St. Gregory’s Academy who, upon graduation in 1999, joined the SSJ. Roberts and this boy occupied the same room on the SSJ’s property in Shohola. When Roberts later visited the SSJ in France, Roberts was given special permission to spend time alone with this boy in his room after compline.
Dr. Jeffrey Bond can be reached at jmb3@ltis.net.


VERBUM - ISSUE No. 62
Saint Thomas Aquinas Seminary
Stockton Hill
SUMMER, 1996
Winona, Minnesota
55987 U.S.A.



Fr. Marshall Roberts, from Warsaw, Kentucky, began his studies in Winona. He went to Ecône for a year, and then spent time at the Regina Cæli house before returning to Winona to complete his studies. Even though this year’s Ordination class maybe quite large, vocations in general are not too abundant. The reasons that Fr. Roberts allocates for this are on the one hand, this secular age with its spirit of anti-self-denial, and on the other hand, a poor example of a life of true sanctity, which is displayed by most of the clergy and religious. Nevertheless, Father states that all are called to perfection, and a vocation to the religious life, with its duties and obligations, encourages lives of perfection. His contributions to the Divine Liturgy as Organist and Schola member will be greatly missed here at the Seminary. Father sees the Mass as being “central to the spiritual life.  A Christian life without the Mass or Confession is unthinkable, since the ordinary channel whereby God gives grace to us is through the sacraments, and these sacraments are impossible without the priesthood.” Father will supply these sacraments, where he will help preach retreats with his fellow Kentuckian Fr. Timothy Pfeiffer, in his assignment to the Society’s retreat house in Ridgefield.

Pepe, who are you and what are your associations?

There are associated discussions on Cathinfo about this topic. One thread from 2013 states he became a Dominican that year (postulant at the time) and changed his name, and where passionate defenders of his character attest to his orthodoxy.

However, there have been very serious accusations detailed in this thread by clergy and other people with excellent reputations, about his alleged sodomite tendency.  

In one thread, a forum member stated the following, which prompted me to be cautious in my comment:

This internet is a great medium, and has been used successfully to
keep the faithful properly informed of the snakes amongst us.But we have to make sure that , as the information touches someone's reputation, it passes the smell test:
1) Is it true (not gossip, rumour, or speculation)?
2) Is it necessary to be said ( has the problem been resolved, have the hurt parties been made whole, has the behavior been corrected, etc) ?
3) will I absolutely improve the situation by my discourse (is there a high risk it will happen again, etc)?

To read both the accusations and more current attestations, it's like we're discussing two different people.  

Quote from: hollingsworth

Pepe, who are you and what are your associations?

Why in the world would this honest question prompt 2 thumbs down?  That's illogical.

Thumbs down perhaps because on a forum that offers anonymity for those who need or desire it, it is an inappropriate question. No one has to identify themselves before offering information.

The information offered speaks for itself. Don't shoot the messenger. If this priest did indeed live with Fr. U and Fr. Ensey, and if the Vice-Rector of any seminary has said he has a love letter from Fr. Roberts to a young seminarian (or any man) then that is more than enough not to use associate with him or put him in a position where he can do harm.

He seems to have a very long trail of problems all related to an inordinate fondness for young men. I am aware of much of the circuмstance of Fr. U., his time at the seminary and his efforts to undermine the Society. Accusations have followed him everywhere he goes and somehow he finds protectors in the episcopate. It sounds like this priest is a similar case. I find this really alarming and I agree with Elizabeth.

Pilar said:

Thumbs down perhaps because on a forum that offers anonymity for those who need or desire it, it is an inappropriate question. No one has to identify themselves before offering information.

I agree with you as applied to normal commentary, but the OP is new and is resurrecting very serious information. It's reasonable to ask - not identity per se - but something more to help the reader understand the OP's agenda; i.e., his affiliation with the issue, or reason for bringing this to attention at this time.  Asking for this information doesn't negate the veracity of his post.
Simply, I'd like to know Pepe's stake in this. A former associate?  a friend of someone involved?  He doesn't have to answer, but it's fair to ask.

I do agree with the rest of your commentary.

In fairness, Green Scapular, it looks like Pepe did a cut and paste of letters, etc that are public domain, from those with good reputations. One cannot just dismiss this as gossip due to that fact alone. I think we all wish it was merely gossip and could be dismissed.

Perevang:

Simply, I'd like to know Pepe's stake in this. A former associate?  a friend of someone involved?  He doesn't have to answer, but it's fair to ask.

It most certainly is fair to ask.  If "Pepe" is going to put this kind of stuff online, then he needs to identify himself, or at least, as you say, let us understand what his "stake in this" is.  The accused has a right to know his accuser.

Richard:

One more time, I have known Fr.Roberts for about 8 years,He has never done any thing like this while he has been at our chapel.If my understanding is correct once a man goes this way he usually doesn't stop .I don't know about the other priest but as far as Fr.Roberts is concerned he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,and unless you can come up with absolute proof positive you should just shut up.

Father Roberts may well have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.  I am totally suspicious about "Pepe."  BTW, does anyone know if you-know-who is still back there in KY?  This thread started as a thinly disguised attack upon the Frs. Pfeiffer and Hewko and their seminary.  I am in no way associated with them, but It think this whole accusation is meant to sully their reputations.

To Pilar:
Baloney, Pilar!  If this guy is going to come out on an open forum and out a priest, let him at least have the decency to identify himself.  

BTW, from this post I expect to receive 10 'Thumbs up.'  If I don't get them I will stamp my feet. :jumping2:

richard, that's a subjective argument.
Any Catholic would be devastated to learn their family priest had such accusations made against him, so I understand your reaction, but we must always remain objective.
To that end, the items that Pepe posted are easily investigated as authentic docuмents/accounts. Just as important, the subjects are very credible and would hardly all conspire together to make the same accusations.

However, your account of his character goes to my first comment - to read the description of him 'before' vs. those who have known him in Jacksonville and attest to his good character, is like reading about 2 different people.

Your point being? Fr.Roberts was recommended to us by Fr.Fullerton who was district superior at the time even though he was no longer in the SSPX. It doesn't doesn't make sense do keep bringing this out year after year when he is not guilty, the person dragging this up is in danger calumny as are those who back him up and spread it.

One more time, I have known Fr.Roberts for about 8 years,He has never done any thing like this while he has been at our chapel.If my understanding is correct once a man goes this way he usually doesn't stop .I don't know about the other priest but as far as Fr.Roberts is concerned he was in the wrong place at the wrong time,and unless you can come up with absolute proof positive you should just shut up.

 Fr. Roberts was not merely in the wrong place at the wrong time.  He was an SSPX seminarian, and a founding member of the corrupt Society of St. John.  He was one of 18 men, living in close quarters.letters written by respectable priests, etc.  He was not accidentally caught up in something perverted, or kidnapped by Urritigoity out of the SSPX seminary.  The proof is very much available for anyone who cares to research the many court docuмents, etc. concerning the Society of St. John.