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Title: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Benedikt on August 25, 2025, 12:56:13 PM
he following is taken from pages 10-17 of the Autumn 2025 (https://catacombs.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/Recusant/Recusant 64 Autumn 2025.pdf) issue of The Recusant [slightly adapted and reformatted]:


Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Fr. Paul Robinson and his obsequious sidekick are being wheeled-out again…!

Yes that title is an exaggeration. But only a slight one. Like his previous podcast videos, this was a penance to watch, and not just because there are YouTube adverts every few minutes! In this “SSPX Podcast” video, released in July 2025, we are told in the introduction that: “Fr. Paul Robinson responds to objections surrounding the Society of St. Pius X’s decision not to conditionally ordain every priest ordained in the Novus Ordo rite who joins the Society. Why doesn’t the SSPX re-ordain across the board?”

This is already misleading the audience. The real question ought to be why the SSPX has so radically changed its approach to this question: conditional ordination is now the exception whereas it used to be the rule. The real question which needs looking into, then, is what has changed. Why is the SSPX now so reluctant to conditionally ordain Novus Ordopriests?

Fr. Robinson begins by telling his listeners that: “We do believe that the new rites are valid. … And then secondly, we believe that you need to have serious grounds before repeating a non-repeatable sacrament,” which, he says, means, “you have to have a positive doubt.” This is, of course: a straw man. Nobody is claiming that conditional ordinations should be done without a good reason. The issue then is whether there are serious grounds, whether there is a positive doubt and if so, what it might look like. Incredibly, this question is not actually addressed in the entire hour-long video.


“Case by case”

Archbishop Lefebvre, Fr. Robinson admits, wanted to go case-by-case and he claims that that is what the SSPX does today. But the more he says, the more it becomes clear that what the Archbishop meant by “case by case” and what the SSPX does today are quite different. What the SSPX does today, it seems, is to look at the actual ceremony in which the priest was ordained by watching a video of it. That, according to what Fr. Robinson says, is what the present-day SSPX calls looking at an ordination “case by case.”

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“So, you know, when we have a new priest who comes to us, we typically receive the ordination video and then I send that on to [US District Superior] Fr. Fullerton and Bishop Fellay and they make the judgement, they assess what they think.” 

He then adds that “The last thing anyone wants us to do is to change our principles” which he says haven’t changed “for the last fifty years” - (God forbid that that should ever happen!) - adding that those who don’t like it are taking a sedevacantist line, before going on to discuss “the nine” sedevacantist priests in 1983 as though that is what this is really all about. 

Andrew then raises as an objection the claim that “Archbishop Lefebvre always conditionally re-ordained any priest ordained in the new rite who came to him: another straw man! To this, Fr. Robinson replies: “This is an easy objection to answer because it’s just not true.” You write your own objections and then you find them easy to answer? Fancy that! It is true that the Archbishop, when looking at Novus Ordo priests case-by-case did sometimes come across one whose ordination gave no real grounds for doubt. This is largely because the new rite of priestly ordination, at least in Latin, is so similar to the Traditional Rite (the only difference being “ut” - a word whose absence does not obscure what is taking place) and because in the 1970s and 80s many Novus Ordo ordinations were still being done by men who had become bishops before the changes to the rite of episcopal consecration in 1968.

This was the case with Fr. Glover, one of the examples brought up by Fr. Robinson (the other being a Fr. Stark, presumably an American?). Fr. Glover was an Oratorian ordained in the new rite of [ordination] in Latin, by a bishop consecrated in the Traditional Rite before 1968. A doctor of canon law and member of the Roman Rota, he was a larger than life character whom plenty of people in England still remember.

The same is true of the late Fr. Gregory Hesse who was ordained in the new rite of priestly ordination in 1981 by Archbishop Sabattini, who himself had been consecrated as a bishop before the changes. And there were others too in those days; but clearly, as time progressed, such cases would become less likely. Archbishop Lefebvre himself as good as said that the situation surrounding doubtful conciliar sacraments was becoming worse. What he would have said in 2025, fully fifty-seven years after the changes to the rite of episcopal consecration, is anyone’s guess, but something tells me he wouldn’t be more favourably inclined towards it!


“Invalid” or “Doubtful”…?

Andrew brings up the 1988 letter from Archbishop Lefebvre to a Mr. Wilson, reproduced in these pages a few years ago (Recusant 50, p.16). We will quote it again, not only because Fr. Robinson was unable to deal with it properly, but also because it speaks for itself in all its simplicity. It reads:
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“Very dear Mr. Wilson, thank you very much for your kind letter. I agree with your desire to re-ordain conditionally these priests, and I have done this reordination many times. All sacraments from the modernists bishops or priests are doubtful now. The changes are increasing and their intentions are no more [i.e. no longer] Catholic. We are in the time of great apostasy. […]”

This letter is so clear and straightforward that it ought not to surprise us that Fr. Robinson struggles to deal with it properly at all. In the end, he simply comments: 
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“This letter does not prove that Archbishop Lefebvre decided that he was going to universally conditionally ordain all [Novus Ordo] priests.” 

Well no, but it does, at the very least, show that his position, and that of the SSPX, was that the “rule” was to conditionally ordain and the “exception,” those who did not require conditional ordination, were a small and ever-shrinking minority. By contrast, the SSPX of today appear to have exactly the opposite approach: to assume that the ordination is valid unless they happen to become aware of an obvious defect in the actual ceremony of priestly ordination itself. At one point Fr. Robinson even admits that:
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“He [i.e. Lefebvre] did consider the new rites doubtful. Not invalid, but doubtful.”

But then, not long after, he confuses the issue by saying:
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“Like, even in that letter, Archbishop Lefebvre says they’re doubtful. So if they’re doubtful, that means some of them are valid, right?”

Like, no, that’s not what it means. “Doubtful” means that although we can’t be sure, there’s a real possibility that it didn’t happen, so the sacrament (or in this case, the priest) must be avoided, and that the way to fix it is for the sacrament (in this case, the ordination) to be done again conditionally, so that one can be certain. Even if, for argument’s sake, some of those “doubtful” holy orders are in fact valid, as Fr. Robinson says, what use is that if you can’t know which ones? But this seems to be lost on Fr. Robinson: his approach throughout the entire interview is to talk terms of: “whether it’s valid or invalid” - which misses the point. 

A doubtful sacrament might be valid, yes, but “might be” isn’t enough because when it comes to sacraments one must always take the pars tutiorplay it safe, in other words. After the Wilson letter, Andrew brings up an extract from a sermon by the late Bishop Tissier de Mallerais which also ends up being dismissed far too flippantly and unconvincingly by Fr. Robinson. In a sermon given at the 2016 ordinations in Écône, Bishop Tissier said:
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“We cannot, of course, accept this new sabotaged rite of ordination which poses doubts about the validity of many ordinations according to the new rite. … So this new rite of ordination is not Catholic. And so we will of course continue faithfully transmitting the real and valid priesthood – made valid by the traditional rite of ordination.”

Take note: Bishop Tissier clearly says that “many” of these new priests are doubtful. This is, as noted above, in contrast to the new SSPX policy. Fr. Robinson, however, merely remarks:
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“He’s not saying ‘We think its invalid’. … So he’s not really saying anything different here from Archbishop Lefebvre and the position of the SSPX. … Again, this is not the position of the SSPX, that the new rite is invalid.”

Notice the dishonesty, the changing of terms. “That the new rite is invalid”? It doesn’t have to be invalid, it only has to be doubtful! Fr. Robinson continues: 
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“If people want to find quotations that will establish that sort of position, they have to find a quote that says the new rites are intrinsically invalid or all the ordinations in the new rites are invalid.”

Nonsense! Firstly, nobody is saying that, at least in our corner. Secondly, it only has to be doubtful, not invalid. In fact, to be alarmed at the SSPX’s new approach one doesn’t even have to regard all new rite ordinations as are doubtful, merely a sufficient number of them and on sufficiently diverse grounds (not just when wacky things happen during the actual ceremony itself) to begin to see conditional ordination as necessary. 

“Investigation” means watching a video!

With this in mind, it is concerning to note that during this entire hour-long video the question of the new rite of episcopal consecration is never raised, never even acknowledged, never once even given a passing nod. And yet it ought to be central to the discussion, since only a bishop can ordain a priest and therefore a doubtful bishop can only ordain priests at best only doubtfully.

What other grounds for doubt might there be far beyond what happened on the day during the ceremony itself? Well, for instance: who was the bishop? If he was a man given to telling people that he didn’t believe in mediaeval superstitions, that no magic takes place, it’s all just a community leadership rite of passage (Novus Ordo bishops have been known to say such things!), then might that not affect his intention? What exactly does such a man think he is doing? What if his intention is above suspicion, but he was himself made a bishop using the 1968 new rite of episcopal consecration? Does not the very fact of the new rite of episcopal consecration being substantially different from the Traditional one (the Catholic one!) itself raise questions of its own? How about the priest - were his baptism and confirmation valid? 

What about those public cases in recent years where a Novus Ordo priest discovered that his own baptism as a baby had been performed using a do-it-yourself, made-up formula of words? Even modern Rome ordered it to be done again, meaning that the ordination had to be done again too, because priestly ordination is invalid if the candidate is unbaptised. We could go on. But none of these things are even acknowledged, much less discussed by Fr. Robinson and Andrew. Why is that? It is as though they haven’t considered that when it comes to Novus Ordo ordinations there are some issues which aren’t visible on a video of the ceremony. Or perhaps they don’t want us to be aware of that. Fr. Robinson even admits at one point that the SSPX conditionally ordains far fewer ex–Novus Ordo priests today than used to be the case.

His facile justification for this is that in the old days, priests didn’t used to possess a video of their own ordination. Consider the implications: wouldn’t that mean that the SSPX (including Archbishop Lefebvre) conditionally ordained far too many men who ought never to have had it done? And that their only justification for doing so was that, not being able to see a video of the ceremony, they couldn’t be certain that the conciliar ritual had been followed correctly, and nothing more? Later on in the video, Fr. Robinson condemns this approach as “not safe.” As though to underline the fact that watching a video of the ceremony is the only “investigation” being done by today’s SSPX, Fr. Robinson offers Andrew this reflection:
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“If you watch the video of the ordination and you see nothing wrong, then you shouldn’t conditionally ordain. And sometimes I say to people: if you came to me and said, ‘Please re-baptise me, I was baptised in the new rite,’ and you give me a video of your baptism and I look at it and I was like, there’s nothing wrong, then it would obviously be wrong for me to re-baptise you.”

Who can spot the fallacy here? The person performing the baptism does not himself need to have been baptised. Of course, it is fitting for a priest to do it, but it isn’t necessary as such. The sacrament of baptism can be performed validly by a anyone, a Muslim, a Jew or an atheist can do it, as Fr. Robinson himself says later in the video. The sacrament of Holy Orders, on the other hand, requires a bishop who in turn must himself have been validly ordained and consecrated by another real bishop, and so on, which is why the new rite of Episcopal Consecration will always be central to questions of doubtful sacraments. It should trouble everyone a great deal that the modern SSPX’s official spokesman on this question cannot see that obvious distinction, or alternately, that he should be deliberately seeking to hide it from his audience.


Anyone Who Disagrees With Me Is A Sedevacantist!

All of the above is in the first half of the video. The second half includes a lot of talk about other things, such as whether Archbishop Lefebvre was a sedevacantist, Traditional Catholics falling prey to bitterness and hatred and a discussion about Archbishop Thuc and the history of Palmar de Troya. Just how relevant this is in a video entitled: “Why the SSPX Doesn’t Always Conditionally Ordain” is unclear. The fairly obvious explanation is that this is just more guilt-by-association and “what-aboutism” - the same sort of dishonest ploy to which we have seen Fr. Robinson so often resort in his past discussion of “realist science,” in other words.

The attempt has worked on some, it seems. “Very grateful for you all addressing this.” reads one YouTube comment,
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“Seems the gnostic tendency is creeping from the Sedevacanist [sic] to deny the reality of things and thus a continued doubt and uncertainty arises.”

Not everyone has been fooled, however. Another comment reads:
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“Misleading title. It should say, ‘Why the SSPX Rarely Conditionally Ordains after Nearly Reconciling with Rome in 2012’ ”

And another asks:
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“Would the SSPX have Traditional SSPX friendly Novus Ordo Bishops consecrate new Bishops for the SSPX?”

That is almost certainly what is really going on here. The answer, by the way, is surely a resounding “yes” hence the need for the sort of propaganda contained in this video: they are preparing everyone for the day when the SSPX asks permission for new bishops and modernist Rome insists on their own candidates, their own consecrators, if not their own rites.


Doctrine > Validity

There is one final thing which is troubling about this video, and here let us end on a familiar (in these pages at least!) note: validity is one thing, doctrine is another. Yes, validity matters, but doctrine matters more. Priests who come out of the Novus Ordo are often very badly formed. But don’t worry, the SSPX has a programme for their formation, which in the USA is run by…? Yes, Fr. Paul Robinson! That little admission is buried near the start of the interview: blink and you’ll miss it! So at the SSPX in America there will no doubt be ex–Novus Ordo priests not only saying the Traditional Mass with doubtful orders, but also telling people that the earth is billions of years old, that Genesis was “written for a primitive people,” that you should just go ahead and get the latest vaccine, that you must avoid conspiracy theories and be a good little obedient citizen of the nєω ωσrℓ∂ σr∂єr... and more besides.

Lest anyone doubt that valid holy orders is not enough, consider the fact that priests such as Fr. Robinson have holy orders which are beyond any doubt valid, and yet look at the result. The spirit of the New SSPX, so different from what it used to be pervades this entire video. There is a lot of talk, for instance, about how Bishop Fellay, Fr. Fullerton, the SSPX superiors in general have “the grace of state” to decide things - a seriously flawed argument which will be familiar to anyone who lived through the 2012 SSPX crisis. The faithful are told “you’re not trained in this” and that instead of concerning themselves, they “should just pursue peace of soul” – yes, those are exact quotes.

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“It’s just not the position of the faithful to tell us what to do in that case. Because we’re the ones who have to be responsible for that, just as we have to be responsible for what we say in the confessional of what we say from the pulpit and how we guide the faithful. So it’s just, I guess, one of the purposes here is to say: this is our position and you can agree with it or not agree with it but that’s what it is. So if you come to our chapels, it’s just expected that you’re going to accept the priests that we have say public Mass and trust that we’re making good decisions.”

I agree with Fr. Robinson here, although not in a way with which he would be happy. He is right in that you do need to decide whether or not you trust the SSPX as an institution, and that if the answer is “no” then you should stop going there. This interview is yet one more serious piece of evidence (the “x+1”) for why one cannot trust them and why one ought no longer to go there. As he says, if you can’t trust them on the question of Novus Ordo Holy Orders (or evolutionary cosmology, covid vaccines, and so much more besides…), how far can you really trust their advice in the confessional, their sermons, their guidance on retreats, etc? It is a long 
established fact, to take just one example, that in America, in Germany and elsewhere, their advice to newly-weds is to avoid having too many children, “It’s not a race!” and so forth. For once Fr. Robinson is quite right: you can’t just pick and choose, you either trust the SSPX or you don’t. As he himself comments,
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“I do understand there’s a lack of trust today. The Church has lost credibility, priests have lost credibility…”

Although spoken about the conciliar church (of course, he himself never actually uses that term because, like the institution which he represents, it is a distinction which he doesn’t recognise), these words apply to the modern SSPX. What he and others ought to be asking is why the SSPX has lost credibility, how that has happened and what the implications might be. Indeed, ironically, if there is one thing which represents in stark relief the difference between the SSPX before and after its Rome-friendly makeover, it is this attitude. The old SSPX used to tell the faithful: You need to read, to study, don’t just take our word for it, read this book, look at this interview, do your homework, see for yourselves!

By contrast, the new SSPX tells them: Who do you think you are? You’re just a layman! Go back to sleep! Leave this to us, we’re the experts, you wouldn’t understand, don’t worry you’re pretty little head about it! Let us close with a comment from Andrew which we think sums it up nicely.
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“You have to trust. There’s something to be said for just accepting that sometimes things are OK. … Sometimes we just have to be able to trust that Christ is watching over the Church still.”

Alright then - *yawn* - I must have just imagined the crisis in the Church, the worst crisis in human history which is still getting worse every day. Goodnight everyone!


Further Reading:

General:

Novus Ordo Bishops - Two Opposing Views:

Novus Ordo Holy Orders: Are they Doubtful and Why?

“All agree that the Sacraments of the New Law, as sensible signs which produce invisible grace, must both signify the grace which they produce and produce the grace which they signify. Now the effects which must be produced and hence also signified by Sacred Ordination to the Diaconate, the Priesthood, and the Episcopacy, namely power and grace, in all the rites of various times and places in the universal Church, are found to be sufficiently signified by the imposition of hands and the words which determine it. […]

Wherefore, after invoking the divine light, We of Our Apostolic Authority and from certain knowledge declare, and as far as may be necessary decree and provide: that the matter, and the only matter, of the Sacred Orders of the Diaconate, the Priesthood, and the Episcopacy is the imposition of hands; and that the form, and the only form, is the words which determine the application of this matter, which univocally signify the sacramental effects – namely the power of Order and the grace of the Holy Spirit – and which are accepted and used by the Church in that sense. ” 
- Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, 1947

“But the words which until recently were commonly held by Anglicans to constitute the proper form of priestly ordination namely, “Receive the Holy Ghost,” certainly do not in the least definitely express the sacred Order of Priesthood (sacerdotium) or its grace and power … This form had, indeed, afterwards added to it the words “for the office and work of a priest,” etc.; but this rather shows that the Anglicans themselves perceived that the first form was defective and inadequate.” 
- Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae, 1896

We all learn in catechism that a sacrament is “an outward sign of inward grace” but what does that mean in practice? It means that the entire ceremony and in particular the essential form - the words which make the sacrament happen and without which no sacrament can take place - must signify outwardly what is invisibly taking place. The form: “I baptise you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost” clearly signifies that a baptism is taking place. On hearing those words, an ignorant pagan, stumbling into a church half-way through a strange ceremony, could, in theory, understand that a baptism is taking place.

The same is true of the sacrament of Holy Orders. The words can be expected to describe, or represent outwardly, what is inwardly taking place in that sacrament. So what, precisely, is taking place at the consecration of a bishop? The priest is being given the episcopacy, that is, the fullness of the priesthood. He may or may not be going to “govern” - that would signify his being appointed to a diocese and given ordinary jurisdiction - but even if he is an auxiliary bishop and has no jurisdiction, he will still exercise the fullness of the ministry of a priest. 

A sacramental form is valid because the words clearly signify what is taking place; therefore, to the extent that they fail to signify it, its validity is put in doubt. That is why the Church decided (and Leo XIII repeated the decision) that Anglican holy orders are invalid. The essential form used by the Anglicans for a hundred years had said only “Receive the Holy Ghost” which is a true but inadequate description of what is happening at an ordination: it doesn’t sufficiently signify what is taking place because there is no mention of the priesthood.


Essential Form of Priestly Ordination:

(http://]https://i.postimg.cc/ZnSXZnkB/Ordination.png)

What does this signify? In both cases, a man is being given “the dignity of the priesthood,” an “office which comes from” God and is the next one down from that of a bishop. 


Essential Form of Episcopal Consecration:

(http://]https://i.postimg.cc/nh2mGPV6/Episcopal.png)

What does this signify? In the traditional form a “priest” being given “the fullness of thy ministry” which is the definition of a bishop. In the Novus Ordo form a “candidate” is being given “power” which is “the governing spirit” given to the apostles. Is that the same as the fullness of the priesthood, i.e. the episcopacy, or might it conceivably be something distinct?
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Mark 79 on August 25, 2025, 02:34:26 PM
At this point our reflexive response should be to reject everything that Fr. Paul "Upside-Down" Robinson says and believe the diametric opposite.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Matthew on August 25, 2025, 02:38:25 PM
Agree with Mark79.

But here is my hot-take: what is the point of publishing nonsense from the SSPX like this, "Novus Ordo Watch" style? Novus Ordo Watch cranks out a steady stream of "Look at this nonsense! You can see there's a Crisis in the Church!"

Now a Traditional Catholic like me has ZERO need for such content. I've been convinced of a Crisis in the Church since I was a child.

Now apply that to a Catholic who is awake to the downfall of the SSPX. The evidence is literally everywhere, just like evidence of a Crisis in the Church at large. It's old news now!
Once you're awake to the fact that Fr. Robinson, all of the SSPX leadership, many of its priests, and all of its younger priests, have gone a completely different direction than +Lefebvre -- What's the point of paying attention to them any more?

What's the point of constantly putting your face in the dung pile, just to make sure it's still dung?

But here is my question: who is this supposed to be for, exactly? Someone who was born yesterday, but they are going to wake up EXACTLY TODAY after reading THIS bit of news, leave the SSPX, and start attending Resistance-affiliated Masses? Somehow they missed the first 15,000 such pieces of evidence, but THIS ONE is going to do the trick, I tell ya!

If someone hasn't left the SSPX at this point, THEY AREN'T LEAVING, not even if they switched over to the Novus Ordo Missae at all their chapels. Their leadership and media engine would have some believable-sounding excuse, people would be loathe to leave their "investment" (donations over many years), they'd want a place to send their children to school ("no way I can homeschool!"), etc. Not to mention they just don't care. Most of them understood NOTHING of +ABL and his mission to begin with. They are barely attached to the "Latin Mass", much less the broader Traditional Movement. And they are far too worldly to be on any crusade for the Holy Catholic Faith.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Benedikt on August 25, 2025, 02:57:40 PM
Quote from: Matthew (https://www.cathinfo.com/index.php?topic=77694.msg996988#msg996988) 2025-08-25, 12:38:25 PM
Agree with Mark79.

But here is my hot-take: what is the point of publishing nonsense from the SSPX like this, "Novus Ordo Watch" style? Novus Ordo Watch cranks out a steady stream of "Look at this nonsense! You can see there's a Crisis in the Church!"

Now a Traditional Catholic like me has ZERO need for such content. I've been convinced of a Crisis in the Church since I was a child.

Now apply that to a Catholic who is awake to the downfall of the SSPX. The evidence is literally everywhere, just like evidence of a Crisis in the Church at large. It's old news now!
Once you're awake to the fact that Fr. Robinson, all of the SSPX leadership, many of its priests, and all of its younger priests, have gone a completely different direction than +Lefebvre -- What's the point of paying attention to them any more?

What's the point of constantly putting your face in the dung pile, just to make sure it's still dung?

But here is my question: who is this supposed to be for, exactly? Someone who was born yesterday, but they are going to wake up EXACTLY TODAY after reading THIS bit of news, leave the SSPX, and start attending Resistance-affiliated Masses? Somehow they missed the first 15,000 such pieces of evidence, but THIS ONE is going to do the trick, I tell ya!

If someone hasn't left the SSPX at this point, THEY AREN'T LEAVING, not even if they switched over to the Novus Ordo Missae at all their chapels. Their leadership and media engine would have some believable-sounding excuse, people would be loathe to leave their "investment" (donations over many years), they'd want a place to send their children to school ("no way I can homeschool!"), etc. Not to mention they just don't care. Most of them understood NOTHING of +ABL and his mission to begin with. They are barely attached to the "Latin Mass", much less the broader Traditional Movement. And they are far too worldly to be on any crusade for the Holy Catholic Faith.
We are in an Information Age. The Crisis is not “old news” because the Neo-SSPX continues to mislead countless souls. Every day, more faithful are leaving the Neo-SSPX, and many report that they were drawn to Tradition, intending to attend what they thought was the society +Archbishop Lefebvre founded, but after discovering evidence online, they now understand the betrayal and refuse to participate, avoiding being trapped in its compromise. Publishing this information is not about shocking the already awake; it is about alerting the unaware, warning the faithful, and strengthening the fight for the Faith. +Archbishop Lefebvre never compromised, and neither can we. Silence is complicity. True Resistance is growing, and the fight for the Faith continues.

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 25, 2025, 06:47:26 PM
Right, these last couple of attempts by SSPX to justify their indefensible position have been so replete with logical fallacy, gaslighting, absurdly-poor arguments, and other forms of blatant dishonesty ... that it PROVES without any shadow of a doubt their bad will, deception, and ... in so many words ... LYING.  I didn't think priests would lie, but they are in fact lying through their teeth.

But, should that come as a surprise from the Modernist Heretic Robinson, who openly rejects the inerrancy of Sacred Scriture and therefore its divine authorship.  St. Robert Bellarmine would have had Robison burned at the stake.  Robinson also refused to sign letters during the Plandemic attesting to the fact that Traditional Catholics had religious objections to the jab.  This is STRIKE THREE.

Robinson' needs to be given a chance to recant.  If he does, he needs to be consigned to a monastery to life, prevented from any public preaching, reduced to a simplex priest.  If he does not recant, he should be defrocked and excommunicated.  In any case, his book needs to be at the top of the Index.

What makes Robinson that much more pernicious is that he parades around not only in a Roman collar, but posing as a Traditional Catholic ... while denying the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture every bit as much as any foaming-at the-mouth Jesuit (I know, since I battled them for 7 years at their institutions), except that he dresses up his heresies in the smells and bells of the Tridentine Rites.  At least the Jesuits don't hide who they are, and just go have their clown Masses, and so there's little deception.

What makes it evern worse is that the SSPX as an organization have endorsed his heretical monstrosity of a book, and keep appointing him to positions of "leadership".  I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes the next US District Superior or even Seminary Rector.  Meanwhile, the old guard, such as Father Kevin Robinson or Father Peter Scott ... they're hidden away.

That tells me everything I need to know about neo-SSPX.  100% infiltrated and taken over.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 25, 2025, 07:00:44 PM
Agree with Mark79.

But here is my hot-take: what is the point of publishing nonsense from the SSPX like this, "Novus Ordo Watch" style? Novus Ordo Watch cranks out a steady stream of "Look at this nonsense! You can see there's a Crisis in the Church!"

Now a Traditional Catholic like me has ZERO need for such content. I've been convinced of a Crisis in the Church since I was a child.

Now apply that to a Catholic who is awake to the downfall of the SSPX. The evidence is literally everywhere, just like evidence of a Crisis in the Church at large. It's old news now!
Once you're awake to the fact that Fr. Robinson, all of the SSPX leadership, many of its priests, and all of its younger priests, have gone a completely different direction than +Lefebvre -- What's the point of paying attention to them any more?

What's the point of constantly putting your face in the dung pile, just to make sure it's still dung?

So, Matthew ... the point is more toward the third-parties who might be snookered by their duplicity.  They need to be exposed for their sakes, not hours.  If enough people see through their lives, it just might put enough pressure on them that they might have to cave.

Here's the worst part, as I've pointed out ...

If we who believe there's positive doubt are wrong, what's the worse that happens?  With the CONDITIONAL form of the Rite, there's no sacrilege (SSPX were deliberately conflating that concern with the conditional form and referring to it dishonestly, that is, mendaciously, as a RE-administration of the Sacrament ... which would in fact be a sacrilege).  THEY had to elevate the worse case to that level, but it's not.  So, one might loosely commit a grave disrespect toward the Sacrament IF one just did it willy-nilly for no reason whatsoever, "just in case", for negative doubt.  But given that there's enough here that they felt the need to make two defenses of the position, that's clearly enough.  Furthermore, even if THEY believe the Sacraments are valid, they have no right before God to impose that opiniion on the consciences of the faithful.  Even the charity of appeasing the consciences of the faithful, many of whom are educated, intelligent, and reasonable ... would suffice for the conditoinal administration.  Oh, of course, Robinson gaslights again by claiming that we need to accept the opinions of men who had become priests and even bishops.  OK, so the very bright Traditional Catholics bishops and priests who have come to a different conclusion are just chopped liver?  Whatever you want to say about The Nine, their top minds probably have greater knowledge and intellectual ability than nearly the entire neo-SSPX combined.  If you add Bishop Williamson in (who while believing the NO Rites to be valid per se, nevertheless concluded that condtiionals should be done) ... then then they win hands down.  Then, of course, they gaslight again by claiming it's a "sedevacantist" thing.  We had the shill Borat here claiming that it was invented specifically by the Dimond Brothers.

So the WORST case scenario if WE are wrong is ... MAYBE a slight disrespect toward the Sacrament, which I'm sure God will not punish, given the unprecedented confusion of this Crisis, and in fact would even reward if done for letting the consciences of the faithful be at peace in receiving the Sacraments.

Now, the WORSE case if THEY are wrong?  Objective Idolatry, not receiving restoration to and/or increases in sanctifying grace (the value of which is infinite), and even possibly the loss of souls.

Only the worse kind of mendacious agenda can put this position into practice and impose it on the consciences of the faithful, as this worse case comparison renders it a NO BRAINER.

There's wickedness here, not merely "oh, they're mistaken in good faith".

We know the real agenda, though ... and it's that you can't upset the Modernists by claiming their Rites our doubtful, since that would be a non-starter for regularization, and some of the more pernicious infiltrators WANT to deprive the faithful of valid Sacraments, the wicked Satanist types.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 26, 2025, 04:31:18 PM
If someone hasn't left the SSPX at this point, THEY AREN'T LEAVING, not even if they switched over to the Novus Ordo Missae at all their chapels. Their leadership and media engine would have some believable-sounding excuse, people would be loathe to leave their "investment" (donations over many years), they'd want a place to send their children to school ("no way I can homeschool!"), etc. Not to mention they just don't care. Most of them understood NOTHING of +ABL and his mission to begin with. They are barely attached to the "Latin Mass", much less the broader Traditional Movement. And they are far too worldly to be on any crusade for the Holy Catholic Faith.
You are quick to mouth off about what we think, Sir. And you are extremely unfair. And you are wrong.

We as a family have home-schooled all our children and found tradition through a lot of prayer and study. We care very much about our faith and would only go to a traditional Mass. And if we choose not to leave the chapels of the SSPX, it's because we have no reason to. Our priest is rock solid and shows great respect for the Holy Father. This is extremely important for the well being of children. I did not want a priest who mocked the Church and mocked the Papacy and taught my children to do that. It is unhealthy for young minds. I had to have words with a Resistant minded priest who crossed this line. I approached him politely and privately and he stood there and bellowed at me like a four year old child having a tantrum. I exaggerate not. I also am not impressed with the pedo priests being put on the UK/Irish Resistance circuit. I understand this has happened in the SSPX too - trust me I am well aware and yes, Bishop Fellay should be held accountable - however, the Resistance circle is very small and very dependent on its priests, making the danger all the greater. Perhaps it is better in America, but it is not safe here. We have very good friends in the Resistance and I have great respect for them. It is not personal. But just as you have made your decision to leave the SSPX chapels, we have made our decision to stay. Please do not use your chip on your shoulder against the SSPX to attack others who do not agree with you.


Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Michelle on August 26, 2025, 08:51:17 PM
Agree with Mark79.

But here is my hot-take: what is the point of publishing nonsense from the SSPX like this, "Novus Ordo Watch" style? Novus Ordo Watch cranks out a steady stream of "Look at this nonsense! You can see there's a Crisis in the Church!"

Now a Traditional Catholic like me has ZERO need for such content. I've been convinced of a Crisis in the Church since I was a child.

Now apply that to a Catholic who is awake to the downfall of the SSPX. The evidence is literally everywhere, just like evidence of a Crisis in the Church at large. It's old news now!
Once you're awake to the fact that Fr. Robinson, all of the SSPX leadership, many of its priests, and all of its younger priests, have gone a completely different direction than +Lefebvre -- What's the point of paying attention to them any more?

What's the point of constantly putting your face in the dung pile, just to make sure it's still dung?

But here is my question: who is this supposed to be for, exactly? Someone who was born yesterday, but they are going to wake up EXACTLY TODAY after reading THIS bit of news, leave the SSPX, and start attending Resistance-affiliated Masses? Somehow they missed the first 15,000 such pieces of evidence, but THIS ONE is going to do the trick, I tell ya!

If someone hasn't left the SSPX at this point, THEY AREN'T LEAVING, not even if they switched over to the Novus Ordo Missae at all their chapels. Their leadership and media engine would have some believable-sounding excuse, people would be loathe to leave their "investment" (donations over many years), they'd want a place to send their children to school ("no way I can homeschool!"), etc. Not to mention they just don't care. Most of them understood NOTHING of +ABL and his mission to begin with. They are barely attached to the "Latin Mass", much less the broader Traditional Movement. And they are far too worldly to be on any crusade for the Holy Catholic Faith.
The participation in the Novus Ordo Jubilee is the Last straw for me.  I officially separated myself from the SSPX.   My children and grandchildren will probably continue attending while the kids are in school as there is no alternative near them.  It's up to the parents and especially the father to keep informed and resist the incremental changes coming into the chapels.  The choir at our SSPX mission are all sedevacantists and will not show up if a doubtful priest is scheduled to fill in.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Mark 79 on August 26, 2025, 09:33:00 PM
The participation in the Novus Ordo Jubilee is the Last straw for me.  I officially separated myself from the SSPX.  My children and grandchildren will probably continue attending while the kids are in school as there is no alternative near them.  It's up to the parents and especially the father to keep informed and resist the incremental changes coming into the chapels.  The choir at our SSPX mission are all sedevacantists and will not show up if a doubtful priest is scheduled to fill in.

Solid Catholic Action on the part of your choir.

Another effective "wake up" for the Cabal is empty collection plates.


And this clip is directed at Fr. Upside-down on Everything:

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/1a9ec33b-82d4-49a1-b64d-196b913d7e61
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: sebveritas on August 26, 2025, 09:50:59 PM
The participation in the Novus Ordo Jubilee is the Last straw for me.  I officially separated myself from the SSPX.  My children and grandchildren will probably continue attending while the kids are in school as there is no alternative near them.  It's up to the parents and especially the father to keep informed and resist the incremental changes coming into the chapels.  The choir at our SSPX mission are all sedevacantists and will not show up if a doubtful priest is scheduled to fill in.
That takes real courage, and I admire your stand. The first few weeks are always the hardest, but with prayer you will find that God gives the grace. We are seeing more family and friends wake up to this as well. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: trento on August 26, 2025, 11:52:47 PM
The participation in the Novus Ordo Jubilee is the Last straw for me.  I officially separated myself from the SSPX.  My children and grandchildren will probably continue attending while the kids are in school as there is no alternative near them.  It's up to the parents and especially the father to keep informed and resist the incremental changes coming into the chapels.  The choir at our SSPX mission are all sedevacantists and will not show up if a doubtful priest is scheduled to fill in.
What are sedevacantists doing in an una-cuм Mass location in the first place?
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: sebveritas on August 27, 2025, 12:00:13 AM
What are sedevacantists doing in an una-cuм Mass location in the first place?
Could it be that, like all tradecuмenists, they are simply trying to attend whatever Mass is validly offered?



Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 09:06:50 AM
..............
We as a family have home-schooled all our children and found tradition through a lot of prayer and study. We care very much about our faith and would only go to a traditional Mass. And if we choose not to leave the chapels of the SSPX, it's because we have no reason to. Our priest is rock solid and shows great respect for the Holy Father. This is extremely important for the well being of children. I did not want a priest who mocked the Church and mocked the Papacy and taught my children to do that. It is unhealthy for young minds. I had to have words with a Resistant minded priest who crossed this line. I approached him politely and privately and he stood there and bellowed at me like a four year old child having a tantrum. I exaggerate not. I also am not impressed with the pedo priests being put on the UK/Irish Resistance circuit. I understand this has happened in the SSPX too - trust me I am well aware and yes, Bishop Fellay should be held accountable - however, the Resistance circle is very small and very dependent on its priests, making the danger all the greater. Perhaps it is better in America, but it is not safe here....
Given the two thumbs down I received for this, am I to take it that you do not have a problem with pedophile priests being on the Resistance circuit with young families? Am I to take it that you believe young children should be indoctrinated to be distrustful of the Papacy and the Vatican? That it is better to leave a place where they get nothing but solid Catholic doctrine and a thriving Catholic community, and go to a Resistance center (I'm talking about our side of the world now) where our children could be abused, where they would be taught to fear the Church, and where there is absolutely no accountability if things go wrong.  I'm writing this in defense of my position; it is not an attack on yours.

Because of this crisis, that we all face together, it is not easy to know what to do; it isn't as black and white as some of you make out. And we need to be careful that we don't box ourselves off so that the only voices we ever hear are our own. Giving public testimony to the faith is a very important thing. So what the SSPX did -processing through the streets of Rome into the Vatican, with hundreds and hundreds of traditional priests and seminarians - was truly amazing. It made a statement to the world. It made a statement to our enemies. It made a statement to the Pope. Catholicism is not about tearing down, and turning on each other. Its about "Restoring All things in Christ"; about building back up and taking back what is ours. And where ever Catholics are giving glory to Christ our King, and being a public example, we should all be applauding and cheering. We shouldn't stop being apostles simply because the hierarchy of Christ's Church have dropped the ball.  
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 10:15:00 AM
So what the SSPX did -processing through the streets of Rome into the Vatican, with hundreds and hundreds of traditional priests and seminarians - was truly amazing. It made a statement to the world. It made a statement to our enemies. It made a statement to the Pope. 
Just get over yourself.  Your posts lack principles, just like the new-sspx.  All you care about are the exterior smells-n-bells, just like the new-sspx.  

You believe that “St JP2 the great” was so good, (though he heretically kissed the Quran in public) and wrote the heretical “theology of the body” among a hundred other heretical acts.  Yet +ABL had to disobey a SAINT POPE in order to save Tradition.  WHAT?  This is so comically schizophrenic. 

You want the fruits of the hard-work of Tradition but without the “pressure” of being “fringe”.  You want the comfort of new-Rome’s “legitimacy” but then want the freedom of Tradition to avoid new-Rome's errors.  

Boru, what you don’t get is that the sspx offers what you want (freedom to worship, security of Faith) PRECISELY because they are INDEPENDENT of new-Rome.  As the new-sspx keeps inching closer to new-Rome, the more they compromise the faith.  Just like the FSSP you left.  Because they weren’t Trad enough.  Because they were infected by new-Rome.  

So quit championing the sspx’s actions (the cracks in the foundation are starting to show) and start realizing the danger they are in.  Start fighting FOR them to WAKE UP.  If they don’t change quickly and reject new-Rome, you’re gonna find yourself sitting in a pew of the FSSP 2.0 real soon.  

It’s happened to every, single Trad group that went to new-Rome.  Once they gave up their freedom, they had to obey 100% and lost everything. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Michelle on August 27, 2025, 10:52:07 AM
Just get over yourself.  Your posts lack principles, just like the new-sspx.  All you care about are the exterior smells-n-bells, just like the new-sspx. 

You believe that “St JP2 the great” was so good, (though he heretically kissed the Quran in public) and wrote the heretical “theology of the body” among a hundred other heretical acts.  Yet +ABL had to disobey a SAINT POPE in order to save Tradition.  WHAT?  This is so comically schizophrenic. 

You want the fruits of the hard-work of Tradition but without the “pressure” of being “fringe”.  You want the comfort of new-Rome’s “legitimacy” but then want the freedom of Tradition to avoid new-Rome's errors. 

Boru, what you don’t get is that the sspx offers what you want (freedom to worship, security of Faith) PRECISELY because they are INDEPENDENT of new-Rome.  As the new-sspx keeps inching closer to new-Rome, the more they compromise the faith.  Just like the FSSP you left.  Because they weren’t Trad enough.  Because they were infected by new-Rome. 

So quit championing the sspx’s actions (the cracks in the foundation are starting to show) and start realizing the danger they are in.  Start fighting FOR them to WAKE UP.  If they don’t change quickly and reject new-Rome, you’re gonna find yourself sitting in a pew of the FSSP 2.0 real soon. 

It’s happened to every, single Trad group that went to new-Rome.  Once they gave up their freedom, they had to obey 100% and lost everything.
You're spot on.  I would not attend the Fraternity of Saint Peter because they compromised and that is exactly why I left the SSPX.  It's all become superficial and defending true doctrine has disappeared.  There is no more opposition to errors of the Newchurch.
St. Paul wrote that "because men did not receive the love of truth, God sends them the operation of error."  This seems to be what is happening to the SSPX because they stopped opposing the enemies of the faith within the church.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Matthew on August 27, 2025, 10:54:35 AM
Right, these last couple of attempts by SSPX to justify their indefensible position have been so replete with logical fallacy, gaslighting, absurdly-poor arguments, and other forms of blatant dishonesty ... that it PROVES without any shadow of a doubt their bad will, deception, and ... in so many words ... LYING.  I didn't think priests would lie, but they are in fact lying through their teeth.

But, should that come as a surprise from the Modernist Heretic Robinson, who openly rejects the inerrancy of Sacred Scriture and therefore its divine authorship.  St. Robert Bellarmine would have had Robison burned at the stake.  Robinson also refused to sign letters during the Plandemic attesting to the fact that Traditional Catholics had religious objections to the jab.  This is STRIKE THREE.

Robinson' needs to be given a chance to recant.  If he does, he needs to be consigned to a monastery to life, prevented from any public preaching, reduced to a simplex priest.  If he does not recant, he should be defrocked and excommunicated.  In any case, his book needs to be at the top of the Index.

What makes Robinson that much more pernicious is that he parades around not only in a Roman collar, but posing as a Traditional Catholic ... while denying the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture every bit as much as any foaming-at the-mouth Jesuit (I know, since I battled them for 7 years at their institutions), except that he dresses up his heresies in the smells and bells of the Tridentine Rites.  At least the Jesuits don't hide who they are, and just go have their clown Masses, and so there's little deception.

What makes it evern worse is that the SSPX as an organization have endorsed his heretical monstrosity of a book, and keep appointing him to positions of "leadership".  I wouldn't be surprised if he becomes the next US District Superior or even Seminary Rector.  Meanwhile, the old guard, such as Father Kevin Robinson or Father Peter Scott ... they're hidden away.

That tells me everything I need to know about neo-SSPX.  100% infiltrated and taken over.

Fully agree.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 27, 2025, 12:25:12 PM
So, I think many people believe that I'm being very harsh with Father Robinson ... except that to be weak and mealy-mouthed about it has the effect of implying that those errors are just opinion and are just "liberal" and within the realm of what one can believe and teach and still qualify as a Catholic.

That was the same problem with the Dubia sent to Bergoglio, where they had some "concerns" and "hesitations" and "uncertainties" and "questons" about what Bergoglio had taught.  By doing that, the message you're actually sending is that you're "not sure" whether one can be a Catholic and hold that one can receive the Sacraments while living in a state of sin.

Recall that one becomes a heretic not only for open heresy, but also for DOUBTING truths that are de fide.  If someone said, for instance, that Our Lady is part of the Holy Quadrinity now ... and you responded with "hmm, I'm not sure" ... then you're also saying that you're "not sure" about the dogma regarding the Holy Trinity.  That makes you a heretic every bit as much as if you denied it.

See, it's only this modern age that has led us to tolerate heresy.  So hostile were the Church Fathers, and the Church in general, toward heresy, that they declared anathemas over single "iota"s, since for them, as Bishop Williamson often said, "ideas mattered" ... and objective truth mattered and was in fact the measure of all reality.

It's only with the creeping subjectivism (that was evidently not taught at STAS after +Williamson was kicked out) that you can tolerate error because "sincerity" is the ultimate criterion.  If you're "sincere" in your heresy, then, hey, it's not so bad, and you have a right to hold it, and you can be saved just the same, as long as you're (subjectively) convinced about it.

So we need to get their attention, and we can't do that with "well, I personally think, Father, that you're mistaken on this point ..."  Sure, that's persuasive.  But if you say, "Father, that's Modernist heresy." ... at the very last, you'll get his attention, whereas the former is going to be blow off immediately. I'd be happy to retract it also if you or he can explain how I'm wrong, or how St. Robert Bellarmine was wrong.  I'd rather retract later if I'm wrong than to let it "slide" as if heresy were "no big deal".  As long as he offers the Tridentine Mass, and has good-smelling incense and melodious bells, then that's all that counts, no big deal.

I love the clip from Bishop Williamson about "nitheness" where he concludes, "No.  I despise you." [for error and heresy]

And I do absolutely DESPISE this heretical teaching of Father Paul Robinson.  I've actually seen the destructiveness of this in action, after 7 years of being taught the exact same garbage by the Jesuits, first in High School, then at University (both Jesuit).  I saw many young men at the Jesuit High School lose the faith because they were immediately taught that the Book of Genesis was a myth, there weren't a real Adam and Eve, that these are all stories to make a point, that the Bible didn't intend to teach about history or science, that the parting of the Red Sea was just because at certain times this marsh they walked through would recede, and on and on and on.  That's where the Modernists got their start, attacking Sacred Scripture.  What else was just something "not intended by Scripture".  Oh, St. Paul, in his misogynistic passages, was just reflecting the attitude of his times, and that wasn't the Holy Ghost teaching that (for those who even believed that the Holy Ghost had anything to do with Sacred Scripture).  What's next?  This type of crap shattered the faith of countless young men at my Jesuit All-Boys' High School.

So, I will not hold punches, I will not be "nice" or "nithe" ... since the fact that he poses at a Traditional priest makes him THAT MUCH MORE DANGEROUS, since the more dressing you put on top of the poison, the more likely people are to swallow it.  If the same thing were said by some Jesuit wearing a rainbow stole while officiating a clown Mass, people of good faith would immediately recognize it as heresy and reject it outright.  But put the same nonsense behind a Trad priest using all the smells and bells, and "well, I guess it must be OK to think this way".

NO !!!  Father Paul Robinson is a Modernist Heretic, and his book belongs on the Index.  And the SSPX should be condemned for approving of and promoting his book.  People have been burned at the stake for FAR LESS than what he holds and teaches.

BTW, I'm also not one to make the charge of heresy lightly.  I've often locked horns with sedevacantists who shoot from the hip and throw the word heresy around like it's going out of style, when some error has some note less than that of heresy or else they're just plain wrong about something even being an error (where it's more of an opinion).  While I do believe Bergoglio was and Prevost is a heretic, I would say that the majority of the accusations are wrong.

Galileo was condemned as a heretic for FAR LESS, for something that could even be debated slightly more, i.e. by claiming that when Sacred Scripture says that the sun moved or the sun stopped, this really means that the earth stopped, etc.  In a sense, motion is relative, so one could make a better case for that.

But Sacred Scripture clearly teaches that during the Great Deluge, the ENTIRE earth was covered with water, the peaks of ALL the mountains, and that ALL flesh was destroyed from the earth except those in the ark ... that does not mean there was a local flood in the Mediterranean basin that wiped out maybe 10% of all humanity, covered NO mountain peaks (since the water would quickly dissipate below that level) ... and where instead of spending decades building an Ark, Noah could have just packed up and moved a couple hundred miles.  There's no way to RESCUE that without having to attribute error to Sacred Scripture.  That's heresy.  St. Robert Bellarmine declared that Galileo was heretical not because scientific matters themselves can be heretical, but because by implication he denied the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture, by contradicting it, i.e. his positions were heretical not ex parte objecti, sed ex parte Dicentis, not because of the objective content but because of WHO TAUGHT IT, namely, the Holy Ghost.

Now if I say ... "Well ... in my opinion, it's just that, I think Father Robinson is mistaken." and of course I add, "oh, but I have the greatest respect for him, and he's a wonderful Trad priest, just that he's wrong about this." ... what would I be doing?  I'd be CONDONING THE HERESY, saying it's just opinion, and that it's no big deal and does nothing to detract from how great a priest he is, etc. etc.  Sorry.  No can do.  I call out heresy as heresy.

I mentioned that the Councils declared anathemas against heretics.  Well, they often added anathemas against those who TOLERATED heresies and effectively being complicit in them and enabling them.  If I "softened" up against Father Robinson, I'd become an enabler of his heresies, and I refuse to do that.  I will not be party to the wreckage of faith his errors can cause and have caused.  Also, even charity toward the heretic requires being blunt and direct.  Had the Dubia "Cardinals" just come straight out and said he was teaching heresy ... I think that could have caused a massive cascading effect in the Church.  Instead, most of those who self-identify as Catholic might have mentioned a thing or two about it on X, until they got bored, and moved on with a yawn.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 02:29:39 PM
 So what the SSPX did -processing through the streets of Rome into the Vatican, with hundreds and hundreds of traditional priests and seminarians - was truly amazing. It made a statement to the world. It made a statement to our enemies. It made a statement to the Pope.
By their fruits you shall know them Pax :)
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 03:37:19 PM

And I do absolutely DESPISE this heretical teaching of Father Paul Robinson.  I've actually seen the destructiveness of this in action, after 7 years of being taught the exact same garbage by the Jesuits, first in High School, then at University (both Jesuit).  I saw many young men at the Jesuit High School lose the faith because they were immediately taught that the Book of Genesis was a myth, there weren't a real Adam and Eve, that these are all stories to make a point, that the Bible didn't intend to teach about history or science, that the parting of the Red Sea was just because at certain times this marsh they walked through would recede, and on and on and on.  That's where the Modernists got their start, attacking Sacred Scripture.  What else was just something "not intended by Scripture".  Oh, St. Paul, in his misogynistic passages, was just reflecting the attitude of his times, and that wasn't the Holy Ghost teaching that (for those who even believed that the Holy Ghost had anything to do with Sacred Scripture).  What's next?  This type of crap shattered the faith of countless young men at my Jesuit All-Boys' High School.
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NO !!!  Father Paul Robinson is a Modernist Heretic, and his book belongs on the Index.  And the SSPX should be condemned for approving of and promoting his book.  People have been burned at the stake for FAR LESS than what he holds and teaches.

For once, we agree (except for heretic part). I am in the process of trying to get hold of Fr. Robinson's book (without purchasing it) so as to assess it myself. I see Robert Sungensi has been refuting him but the best refutation I have come across is actually from a poster here on Cathinfo - a man going by the pseudo-name 'cassini' who says he has done years of research on this issue. I will post a shortened version of his historical conclusions after this post.

As I stated in an earlier post, Modernism is a system; an alliance between faith and false (worldly) philosophy; an alliance between Christianity and Gnosticism; an alliance between the Tree of Life and the Tree of knowledge. Show me a Christian who combines his faith with Descartes or Kant or Hegel or any of those western philosophers that influenced the like of Loisy and Co. and I will show you a Modernist.

Fr. Paul Robinson has succuмbed to this 'system'. Instead of reading scripture according to the traditions of the Church, he is trying to combine worldly pseudo "science" with Christianity. This is the very definition of Modernism - using worldly knowledge to "understand" the depths of Christianity better.

However, he cannot be accused of being a heretic. A heretic is someone who knowingly rejects or wilfully doubts a doctrine of the Church that must be believed by faith. Which is why Modernism is so dangerous; people succuмbing to it do not seem to realise that they are succuмbing. They think, as Fr. Robinson thinks, that Science and religion come from the same source. Which is true if it is real science. Sadly, Fr. Robinson is not using real science.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 03:59:46 PM

Post from 'cassini' (abbreviated):

As many know I have studied the question of the Galileo case and the evolution that followed from it for many years now. Recently I have been re-reading Fr Paul Robinson SSPX book and websites that are so anti-Catholic that he, and many other priests since 1820, have been feeding Catholics with a false philosophy, even heresy, forbidden by the Church.... Fr Robinson’s book The Realistic Guide to Religion and Science is perhaps the most anti-Catholic book on the subject I have ever read:

The first question I ask readers on CIF is, how dogmatic is the Council of Trent’s teaching on Scripture when they ruled as follows?: ‘Furthermore, in order to curb imprudent clever persons, the synod decrees that no one who relies on his own judgment in matters of faith and morals, which pertain to the building up of Christian doctrine, and that no one who distorts the Sacred Scripture according to his own opinions, shall dare to interpret the said Sacred Scripture contrary to that sense which is held by holy Mother Church, whose duty it is to judge regarding the true sense and interpretation of the Holy Scriptures, or even contrary to the unanimous consent of the Fathers, even though interpretations of this kind were never intended to be brought to light. Let those who shall oppose this be reported by their ordinaries and be punished with the penalties prescribed by law.’--- (Denzinger 786)

In 1616, the above ruling of all of the fathers was given as the reason why Galileo’s fixed-sun moving-Earth solar system was heresy. It was also elevated to formal heresy because it was condemned before as heresy in the early years of the Church and again at Bruno’s trial in 1600. But as you all know, the Father of lies managed to fool important churchmen from 1741 that science had proven Galileo right and the Church wrong. By 1820, the heliocentrism heresy allowed without abrogation was an evolved one due to the 1796 Nebular theory, so popes of the time, and since then, did not condemn it, or Darwin’s book in 1859, lest evolution too would be proven true by science causing another embarrassing Galileo affair for them. By then ‘Biblical scholars’ were taking the Bible to bits, especially Genesis, causing a Modernism within Catholic teaching.

But then in 1871 and 1887, tests done with regard to a moving Earth, found evidence that proved the geocentrism of the Bible, the Church of 1616 and 1633, and on for 1700 years, was never proven wrong. Einstein then tried to resurrect the heretical heliocentrism as a 50/50 scientific plausibility  All, science and churchmen, grabbed this 50/50 heliocentrism, took it for granted it was 100% scientific, and carried on as though the Church was proven wrong by science. Thus the Modernism it caused to Catholic belief continued.

So, In order to try to stop the rot in Biblical meaning, Pope Leo XIII produced his encyclical Providentissimus Deus in 1889. In paragraph 18 Pope Leo XIII must have got caught up with the decision of his predecessors in 1741-1835 so added the following in his pastoral letter.

18: To understand how just is the rule here formulated we must remember, first, that the sacred writers, or to speak more accurately, the Holy Ghost “Who spoke by them, did not intend to teach men these things (that is to say, the essential nature of the things of the visible universe), things in no way profitable unto salvation” (St Augustine). Hence, they did not seek to penetrate the secrets of nature, but rather described and dealt with things in more or less figurative language, or in terms which were commonly used at the time, and which in many instances are in daily use at this day, even by the most eminent men of science. Ordinary speech primarily and properly describes what comes under the senses; and somewhat in the same way the sacred writers, as the Angelic Doctor also reminds us, “went by what sensibly appeared,” or put down what God, speaking to men, signified, in the way men could understand and were accustomed to.’--- Providentissimus  Deus.

From that moment on, that paragraph became the Catholic teaching on the Bible regarding Faith and Science and in particular the Galileo case. I could quote endless assertions to this over the last 100 years since then.

In his book Fr Robinson states: ‘All of this is explained with perfect clarity and magisterial precision in Leo XIII encyclical  on Scripture Providentissimus Deus, a passage that lays out the Catholic Biblical science interpretive model: He then quotes paragraph 18 above to show that ‘Catholics are not required to believe that:
• the universe is a certain age,
• God created that universe in six days
• the sun goes around the earth or vice versa, and so on.

(HOWEVER) what the Catholic HISTORY OF FAITH AND SCIENCE has omitted is that in paragraph 14 before 18 of Providentissimus Deus, Pope Leo XIII ruled:

14. Mother Church has held and holds, whose prerogative it is to judge of the true sense and interpretation of Scripture; and therefore, it is permitted to no one to interpret the Holy Scriptures against this sense, or even against the unanimous agreement of the Fathers. By this very wise law the Church by no means retards or blocks the investigations of Biblical science, but rather keeps it free of error, and aids it very much in true progress.’ --- Ch 14, Providentissimus deus.

So, in other words, Pope Leo XIII had already confirmed that the 1616 decree protecting the moving-sun revelation of Scripture was Catholic teaching. In paragraph 18 there is no reference to Galileo, sunset or sunrise, so cannot be attributed to the Galileo case as every Catholic book on the affair claims.

Now if the Council of Trent’s Denzinger 786 rule above is dogmatic Catholic teaching, then geocentrism is of Catholic faith. Therefore all the evolutionary theories invented to show a heliocentric universe are anti-Catholic. Indeed because they are all based on a heliocentric universe, evolutionary theories are also heretical and false according to Catholic teaching.

Indeed how in God's name did the supernatural Creation rules at the dogmatic Vatican Council I get lost. It confirmed the dogma on the supernatural Creation of the 1215 Lateran Council IV.

‘All that exists outside God was, in its whole substance, produced
out of nothing by God. (De fide.) (Vatican Council I, 1870)

‘Substance,’ we know from classic philosophy means, ‘what something is,’ all finished, and not what something is becoming or can become as evolution claims. But since the 1820 volte-face, even this supernatural dogma had to be modernised.

Believe it or not, that is how the supernatural religion of Catholicism became a natural religion that led millions of souls into Hell.

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Comrade on August 27, 2025, 04:38:27 PM

However, he cannot be accused of being a heretic. A heretic is someone who knowingly rejects or wilfully doubts a doctrine of the Church that must be believed by faith. Which is why Modernism is so dangerous; people succuмbing to it do not seem to realise that they are succuмbing. They think, as Fr. Robinson thinks, that Science and religion come from the same source. Which is true if it is real science. Sadly, Fr. Robinson is not using real science.

You fail to make the distinction between Formal Heretic and Material heretic. Robinson has been publicly warned by many individuals and continues to hold these heresies. So, the time is over to give the benefit of the doubt that he just a confused Catholic. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 05:10:41 PM
You fail to make the distinction between Formal Heretic and Material heretic. Robinson has been publicly warned by many individuals and continues to hold these heresies. So, the time is over to give the benefit of the doubt that he just a confused Catholic.
Publicly warned by whom? I have a battalion of Cathinfo posters calling moi a heretic too. Without the correct authority it means nothing. Moreover, only a belief that directly contravenes an Article of Faith, or that has been explicitly rejected by the Church, is labelled as actual "heresy." The confusion Fr. Robinson suffers from seems to stem from the confusion that the Church herself was/is suffering from; the subject matter is not a clear-cut article of faith.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 05:31:47 PM
The participation in the Novus Ordo Jubilee is the Last straw for me.  I officially separated myself from the SSPX.  My children and grandchildren will probably continue attending while the kids are in school as there is no alternative near them.  It's up to the parents and especially the father to keep informed and resist the incremental changes coming into the chapels.  The choir at our SSPX mission are all sedevacantists and will not show up if a doubtful priest is scheduled to fill in.
Your decision is your business but applauding the subversive actions of this sede-vacantist choir is abhorrent. If they feel that strongly about the SSPX's policy of using Novus Order priests who have not been re-ordained (I'm assuming that is what you mean by 'doubtful' priests), then leave. It is unfair to the rest of the congregation to do what they are planning to do. It's unfair to have a group of parishioners who are bent on controlling the parish by such games.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Comrade on August 27, 2025, 05:43:39 PM
Publicly warned by whom? I have a battalion of Cathinfo posters calling moi a heretic too. Without the correct authority it means nothing. Moreover, only a belief that directly contravenes an Article of Faith, or that has been explicitly rejected by the Church, is labelled as actual "heresy." The confusion Fr. Robinson suffers from seems to stem from the confusion that the Church herself was/is suffering from; the subject matter is not a clear-cut article of faith.
He was warned by his fellow sspx priests, like Fr. Black.  He can't claim ignorance. So, once again you fail to make the distinction between formal vs. Material. If we have to wait for authority to make this claim, then I guess you think it is not prudent to consider the novus ordo mass as a sacrilege and sinful to attend either.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 06:43:43 PM
He was warned by his fellow sspx priests, like Fr. Black.  He can't claim ignorance. So, once again you fail to make the distinction between formal vs. Material. If we have to wait for authority to make this claim, then I guess you think it is not prudent to consider the novus ordo mass as a sacrilege and sinful to attend either.
I know Fr. black very well; good friend of the family. But is Fr. Black his superior? Has Fr. Black ever been his superior? Also, you have not addressed my other point: 'Moreover, only a belief that directly contravenes an Article of Faith, or that has been explicitly rejected by the Church, is labelled as actual "heresy." The confusion Fr. Robinson suffers from seems to stem from the confusion that the Church herself was/is suffering from; the subject matter is not a clear-cut article of faith.'

So yes, we have to wait for authority. We are not Protestants. We do not go around declaring as if we were Pope. We can say he skirts with heresy - what he teaches seems heretical - but we have no authority to proclaim Fr. Robinson a heretic.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 07:45:37 PM
You fail to make the distinction between Formal Heretic and Material heretic. Robinson has been publicly warned by many individuals and continues to hold these heresies. So, the time is over to give the benefit of the doubt that he just a confused Catholic.
Right.  One can be a heretic without (and before) the Church declaring them so.  Just like one can be guilty of murder before the trial ends and the jury decides.  Boru is way too legalistic on heresy.  Canon law has all sorts of spiritual penalties for heresy, even that which isn’t formal. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 07:47:25 PM
Publicly warned by whom? I have a battalion of Cathinfo posters calling moi a heretic too. Without the correct authority it means nothing. Moreover, only a belief that directly contravenes an Article of Faith, or that has been explicitly rejected by the Church, is labelled as actual "heresy." The confusion Fr. Robinson suffers from seems to stem from the confusion that the Church herself was/is suffering from; the subject matter is not a clear-cut article of faith.
One of Fr Robinson’s relatives wrote a book and long time ago which was pro-creation and pro-egocentrism.  Fr has no excuse for his scientific heresies.  He knows the truth. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 07:50:49 PM
I know Fr. black very well; good friend of the family. But is Fr. Black his superior? Has Fr. Black ever been his superior? Also, you have not addressed my other point: 'Moreover, only a belief that directly contravenes an Article of Faith, or that has been explicitly rejected by the Church, is labelled as actual "heresy." The confusion Fr. Robinson suffers from seems to stem from the confusion that the Church herself was/is suffering from; the subject matter is not a clear-cut article of faith.'

So yes, we have to wait for authority. We are not Protestants. We do not go around declaring as if we were Pope. We can say he skirts with heresy - what he teaches seems heretical - but we have no authority to proclaim Fr. Robinson a heretic.
Martin Luther was a heretic LONG before he was excommunicated.  The “proclamation” you keep harping about is a legal thing.  It’s not wrong to call someone a heretic before the church decides it legally.  The judgment of the Church simply confirms what everyone already knew.  Just like a canonization confirms that everyone already knew person A was a saint.  
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 27, 2025, 07:56:31 PM
Right.  One can be a heretic without (and before) the Church declaring them so.  Just like one can be guilty of murder before the trial ends and the jury decides.  Boru is way too legalistic on heresy.  Canon law has all sorts of spiritual penalties for heresy, even that which isn’t forma
No. One is suspected of murder but no one is guilty until it goes to trial. You cannot go around labeling people murderers and heretics because YOU think they are guilty. And just as well. I'm sure all of you here would have me strung up, tarred and feathered, and burnt at the stake, if you had your way :laugh1:
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Incredulous on August 27, 2025, 08:09:01 PM
No. One is suspected of murder but no one is guilty until it goes to trial. You cannot go around labeling people murderers and heretics because YOU think they are guilty. And just as well. I'm sure all of you here would have me strung up, tarred and feathered, and burnt at the stake, if you had your way :laugh1:

St. Bernard Clairvaux preached the need to end the Jєωιѕн Pope Anacletus schism and even joined a Catholic army to unseat him in Rome in 1138, long before the Church declared him an Anti-pope.

You’re “wait for a schismatic newChurch or even Robinson’s  dishonest superiors to rule on him” doesn’t cut it.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Incredulous on August 27, 2025, 08:14:53 PM
One of Fr Robinson’s relatives wrote a book and long time ago which was pro-creation and pro-egocentrism.  Fr has no excuse for his scientific heresies.  He knows the truth.

The problem with Robinson is that his false arguments, such as “Novus ordo sacraments are valid” is doing the bidding for the SSPX’s (Jaidhoff bought) corrupt leadership.

He was put up to doing it and he was formed to do their bidding gladly.

It all fits with the neoSSPX’s political agenda & rebranding scheme.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: WorldsAway on August 27, 2025, 08:40:51 PM
No. One is suspected of murder but no one is guilty until it goes to trial. You cannot go around labeling people murderers and heretics because YOU think they are guilty. And just as well. I'm sure all of you here would have me strung up, tarred and feathered, and burnt at the stake, if you had your way :laugh1:

If I see someone commit a murder, I know that they are a murderer

If I hear someone say something heretical, I know that they are a heretic

You are guilty of a sin when you commit it. A sentence of guilt from the state or Church merely confirms that you are responsible for the crime
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 09:03:12 PM
No. One is suspected of murder but no one is guilty until it goes to trial. You cannot go around labeling people murderers and heretics because YOU think they are guilty. And just as well. I'm sure all of you here would have me strung up, tarred and feathered, and burnt at the stake, if you had your way :laugh1:
:facepalm:  You continue to miss the forest for the trees.  There's such a thing as "the court of public opinion" and it's a real thing.  There's also the judgement of GOD, right at the point of sin.  The legal courts (either secular or ecclesiastical) are simply playing catch-up to what really happened.

Canon law has plenty of "ipso facto" penalties (spiritual) that happen immediately, even if the judgmenent of the Church (temporal) needs time to catch up.

That's the whole point of the debate between St Bellarmine and John of God, etc about a heretic pope.  Some say if he uttered heresy, he would immediately lose office.  St Robert said there needed to be a church judgement to lose the office.  BUT THEY WERE DISCUSSING THE TEMPORAL/GOVT OFFICE.  If a pope (or anyone else) were to become a heretic (even a private one), they would "ipso facto" suffer all manner of spiritual penalties in canon law.  Because HERESY IS A GRAVE SIN.

Saying someone is a heretic, is simply saying they are thinking/speaking/acting in GRAVE ERROR.  No one is trying to "judge them" as if they were the Church.  Stop the strawman stupidity.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Michelle on August 27, 2025, 09:27:17 PM
Your decision is your business but applauding the subversive actions of this sede-vacantist choir is abhorrent. If they feel that strongly about the SSPX's policy of using Novus Order priests who have not been re-ordained (I'm assuming that is what you mean by 'doubtful' priests), then leave. It is unfair to the rest of the congregation to do what they are planning to do. It's unfair to have a group of parishioners who are bent on controlling the parish by such games.
This family choir has been at this mission chapel since it's foundation 30+ years ago.  Their position has always been known and there is no "subversion" on their part.  Our priest knows their opinion and he posts on the white board the names of all priests who will be substituting for him if he has to be away. But it is precisely because they protest that we don't get doubtful priests at our chapel.
Personally, as I have already stated, I cannot in good conscious support the SSPX anymore.  They have compromised by not condemning errors and sacrilegious acts by the false religion in the Vatican. This is causing the true faith to be obscured and errors to flourish and coexist within tradition.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 27, 2025, 09:34:43 PM
Borat continues to lie by claiming this is a sedevacantist concern ... earlier claiming it was made up by the Dimonds, and having been duly corrected, can no longer be accused of not lying.

Indeed, SSPX can do what they want.  They always have, since their hubris prevents them from acknowledging that anyone who disagrees with them ever has any legitimate point. 

We're calling them out for being wicked and evil, and they will be judged by God for subjecting the faithful to Sacraments laboring under positive doubt.  God will hold them accountable, and we're calling them out.  It goes without saying that they will do whatever they will do, so Borat can keep bloviating as long as she wants.

Borat too will be judged, since she defends and thereby helps to enable this wickedness.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Michelle on August 27, 2025, 09:39:57 PM
"If they feel that strongly about the SSPX's policy of using Novus Order priests"

As far as the SSPX policy, this has NOT been the policy until recently.  These families that founded these missions sacrificed and labored to retain the true faith from the very beginning of this revolution.  They have every right and the duty before God to protect it.  At least the sedevacantist position does not lead to shaking hands with the enemies of Our Lord and selling us off like Judas did to Jesus.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 27, 2025, 09:42:58 PM
But it is precisely because they protest that we don't get doubtful priests at our chapel.

Correct, and this is the point of the protest.  If SSPX are hurt enough in their pocket books, only then will they back down and possibly do the right thing.  What they are doing here with the positively doubtful priests cannot be excused of objectively grave sin.  Period.

There's nowhere near any sufficient reason for not conferring Holy Orders conditionally, given the potentially grave harm that could be done to souls, and since the conditional form prevents sacrilege ... despite their gaslighting and deliberate / mendacious conflation of that concern where it does not apply.

They also promote the Modernist heresy of Father Paul Robinson.

Finally, they condoned taking of the COVID jab, and who knows how much blood they have on their hands.  I know of a fair number of Trad Catholics who took the jab because "SSPX said it was OK" ... and a couple of them died at a young age of "turbo cancer" shortly after taking the jab.  One woman attended a baby shower, then shortly thereafter felt sick, with a cough, and 3 weeks later was dead of cancer and metastasized and spread around in record time.

That's to say nothing of the moral compromise of telling people it's OK to participate in the crime of abortion by their false assertion that taking jab was only "remote material" cooperation in evil.

It's sad when +Vigano and even Schneider were to the right of them on this issue, as were Ripperger and many FSSP.

SSPX overall are worse than FSSP anymore.

Now, obviously, there are still many good priests among them.  Then, there's another tier where they think correctly themselves but just go along with the current thing.  In reality, they're simply cannot bring themselves to defy the SSPX since they're afraid of being tossed out into the streets, as it were ... and so the rationalize to themselves that it's justified under "obedience" (using the Nuremberg defense, as it were ... and the same false obedience they denounce in rejecting Vatican II and the New Mass).  Then there are those who are gung-ho pro Novus-Ordite, and then finally there are malicious infiltrators, intent upon destroying the SSPX.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 27, 2025, 09:52:33 PM
The problem with Robinson is that his false arguments, such as “Novus ordo sacraments are valid” is doing the bidding for the SSPX’s (Jaidhoff bought) corrupt leadership.

Indeed.  The "logic" or lack thereof is so pathetically awful, that they cannot be excused of blatant and deliberate dishonesty, simply to carry water for the "leadership".

Father Cekada explained in one interview that from the very beginning, in SSPX there were the hardliners, the soft-liners, and the yes-men, those who just went along with "the current thing", even if it was the opposite of what it had been the week before.

Only the bobble-headed yes-ment thrived in SSPX and were promoted to leadership positions ... whereas anyone who could think for himself, whether to the right or the left ... they were relegated to mud huts in Zimbabwe, despite being some of the brightest minds and most virtuous priests among the SSPX.

This obsequious carrying of the water for the SSPX "current" thing is utterly repugnant, and it's transparent because their defenses of that position are nothing but one logical fallacy after another, strawmen, conflation of irrelevant points, and extreme textbook gaslighting ... that there's no way to reconcile it with anything that even remotely resembles intellectual honesty.

I'd love it if next month the SSPX would simply reverse their positon ... and see if Robinson et al. remained convicted of their prior position and had the backbone to actually disagree with the SSPX or would just start carrying water for the next thing.  I suspect the latter.  I'd rather see the former, where at least I'd have respect for them, where they'd be either hot or cold ... rather than his vomit-inducing lukewarmness that we see on display constantly with the obsequious lackeys, which of course they spin into a virtue, as "humble obedience".  Yeah, right.  Keep telling yourself that.

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Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 27, 2025, 09:53:58 PM
Have a little self-respect, man ...

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Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 10:09:30 PM
This family choir has been at this mission chapel since it's foundation 30+ years ago.  Their position has always been known and there is no "subversion" on their part. 
Yep.  The new-sspx is called NEW for a reason.  Tradition is the same.  The sspx has changed.  God will judge the sspx in due time.  They are the subversives to Tradition and God's true Faith.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 27, 2025, 10:12:07 PM
Your decision is your business but applauding the subversive actions of this sede-vacantist choir is abhorrent. 
I love how anyone who disagrees with the new-sspx is a "sede" and a subversive.

Yet +ABL did the same thing against new-rome and Boru has no problem with +ABL.  

:facepalm:  If Boru's hypocrisy could make a sound, we'd all be deaf.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 27, 2025, 10:27:19 PM
I love how anyone who disagrees with the new-sspx is a "sede" and a subversive.

Correct.  That's textbook gaslighting.  Earlier Borat even claimed that not just sedevacantists in general but the Dimond Brothers specifically invented these doubts about the Conciliar Rites, pretty much out of thin air.  They're not rooted in any facts, such as how they completely changed the Rite of Episcopal Consecration, changed the essential form of the Rite of Ordination, and removed all references to the priest's power to offer the Holy Sacrifice (which Pope Leo XIII taught invalidated Anglican Orders) ... so pay no attention to those pesky facts, but clearly it wasn't those facts but, rather, the diseased minds of the Dimond Brothers that merely invented this out of thin air, and based on nothing.

In that earlier video from neo-SSPX they also gaslighted by claiming that the SVs "need" the NO Sacraments to be invalid and "want" them to be invalid.  Yes, I need to declare the Sacraments of the Greek Orthodox to be invalid in order to consider them schismatics outside the Church.  Yes, I WANT to not be able to drive 5 minutes to Father Bob down the street if I want to go to Confession, and to pray that I do not die before a Traditional priest flies in for Mass on the weekend.  It's so ridiculous that it simply cannot be excused of gross dishonesty.

I know many R&R Traditional Catholics who consider NO Orders to be doubtful, including several priests.  We saw an SSPX priest on video saying as much from the pulpit some time ago, and I know an independent preist active for over 50 years (since the early 1970s), never sedevacantist, who has consistently held them to be straight-up invalid, not just doubtful.  But, yes, this is a Dimondite invention.  I'm not even sure the Dimonds were out of their diapers yet when this R&R priest was already calling them invalid.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 28, 2025, 12:03:30 AM
Correct.  That's textbook gaslighting.  Earlier Borat even claimed that not just sedevacantists in general but the Dimond Brothers specifically invented these doubts about the Conciliar Rites, pretty much out of thin air.  
Yes, this is an outright lie and revisionist history.  Boru doesn't know anything about the origins of Tradition or the 70s.  I pity the people who listen to her.  She's an agenda-driven, sspx-cultist.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 06:57:01 AM
Yes, this is an outright lie and revisionist history.  Boru doesn't know anything about the origins of Tradition or the 70s.  I pity the people who listen to her.  She's an agenda-driven, sspx-cultist.

Yeah, that's what I have absolutely no use for or patience for ... where, even after you've been set straight, you persist in the same error.  That speaks to insincerity and bad will, where you have some extrinsic motivation for WANTING your opinion to be the true one, whether it's loyalty to SSPX (layment or else priests loyal to their superiors), or you have some other political agenda (wanting to cozy up with Modernists) or a personal agenda (you spent years receiving Sacraments from a Novus Ordo presbyter) ... etc.  St. Thomas teaches that since the natural object of the intellect is truth, when the intellect clings to error, it's usually due to bad will.

I have no problem with someone who SINCERELY believes something based on reason, arguments, principles, etc. ... even if I disagree with them.  But there are some telltale signs that expose dishonesty ...

1) using obviously fallacious arguments:  strawmen, false dichotomies, appeals to authority, adhominem attacks, conflation of unrelated concerns, cognitive dissonance, confirmation bias
2) gaslighting (generally with some of the above woven into it)
3) re-stating the same erroneous allegation even after having been definitively corrected about it with irrefutable evidence

In all the defenses by SSPX for non-ordination, it's been literally NOTHING BUT the above.  There has not been presented a single halfway-credible argument.

Now, Borat introduces disciplinary infallibility, which is actually what Michael Davies used as well ... but the problem with that is that it begs the question that the Conciliar papal clamants have been legitimate popes, and disciplinary infallibility doesn't stop at preventing invalid Rites, but also bad and harmful Rites (such as a Mass we cannot assist at in good consciences).  So you can't draw some arbitrary line there.  Now, IF you claim that NOM is not intrinsically harmful, etc. ... that you need to make haste back to the "Ecclesia Dei" groups and you're not an actual Traditional Catholics, just a traditional Catholic.

But SSPX themselves do not appeal to disciplinary infallibility, and have spent decades fighting against the notion.  Strangely, despite Borat's contempt for sedevacantists, that is actually one of the main contentions of the SVs and why they conclude the SV papal claimants cannot have been legitimate popes.  Disciplinary infallibility would also cover canonizations, Canon Law, etc.

Or, others among SSPX, while agreeing with disciplinary infallibility, would claim that the NO Rites, such as the Mass, canonizations, etc. are not covered because 1) the papal claimants didn't study the canonizations thoroughly enough or 2) they did not correctly promulgate the NOM, or 3) they're not covered since they were not "Universal" but only affected the Latin Rite, etc.  Well, you could then turn that around and say that the NO Holy Orders labor under the same difficulties, and exampt them in the same way that the SSPX exempt the NOM, canonizations, etc.  So that argument doesn't fly.

What are they left with?  Gaslighting ... falsely claiming that SVs "need it to be true", and then conflating concerns, where they hold that since "re-administration" of the character Sacraments would constitute sacrilege, they must be super-sure (morally certain?) that they're INvalid before being permitted to "re-administer" the Sacrament.  So, this is a lie, since one can NEVER "re-administer" a character Sacrament.  One CAN, however, CONDITIONALLY administer it if, as per Canon Law, there's even a prudent/reasonable doubt.  If the initial attempt had been successful the Sacrament it non re-administered, and there's no sacrilege.  That is the entire point of CONDITIONAL forms of the Sacrament.  But you'll notice how they conflate and blend together these concerns ... 1000% dishonest, aka a lie.  Now, you can still sin against the Sacrament by discrespect, or even sacrilege, if you just re-administer it willy-nilly for no reason at all, other than for negative doubt.  "Just in case the priest messed up baptizing you, let me conditionally baptize anybody with a pulse."  That's a gross disrespect to the Sacrament and would be grave sin, and a sacrilege in a looser sense.  BUT, if you have merely a rational and prudent doubt or question about it, not only can you, but you even MUST administer the Sacrament conditionally, and it's very obvious that the NO changes easily meet the threshold of being not-at-all-unreasonable doubts and questions.  They tampered with the essential form, the same people that brought us the "Bastard Rite of Mass", but yeah, when writing a brand new Rite of Episcopal Consecrations, we can just TRUST these same people, right? [again, we're not considering disciplinary infallibility, since SSPX do not argue from that]  When the same people that wrecked (or appeared to wreck) the Church in so many other ways are behind these changes, and the changes are pretty significant, that CLEARLY rises to the level of there being a rational and prudent doubt, where it's NOWHERE NEAR being in the same category as negative doubt "what if?".  You can POINT TO what gives rise to the concern.  "Look, here are changes to the essential form."  You can also look at the teaching of Pope Leo XIII in Apostolicae Curae, where he clearly teaches that the Anglican Orders are invalid (even IF someone were to amend the essential form by adding a Catholic phrase to it) simply because when the Rite was written, the authors deliberately removed all references to the priest's power to offer the Holy Sacrifice, so as to make it "suitable to", i.e. not incompatible with the "errors of the reformers".  That is PRECISELY what the authors of the New Rites (including some Prots involved in the Mass) said was their goal, to remove obstacles to Ecuмenical Unity by removing things that not "suitable to" the Prot heresies.  That not only clearly rises to the level of prudent and rational doubt, but make it all but certain that these Rites are invalid.  It's close to certain that they're invalid, to any objective observer, lacking only the declaration of legitimate Church authority.  I fully expect an "Apostolicae Curae II" after this crisis declaring them "absolutely null and utterly void".  But, short of that, the threshhold of prudent doubt has clearly been met.

Now, even IF SSPX opine (and that's all it is, their opinion) that the New Rites are valid, if they weren't so arrogant and filled with hubris, they would recognize that many intelligent men (including bishops and priests, and quite a few non-sedevacantists) have concluded OTHERWISE.  Fr. Robinson gaslights again by claiming that we should trust those who have become priests and bishops.  What are the non-SSPX priests and bishops, some of them brilliant men ... just chopped liver?  This was actually +Williamson's position, where the Rites themselves in his opinion are valid ... BUT that he would conditionally ordain as a matter of course because he realized that others have come to different conclusions, so that objectively there's an unresolved debate and therefore doubt, and also just to appease the consciences of the faithful.

In the finaly analysis, if nothing else, charity requires conditionally ordaining NO priests, since many of the faithful have troubled consciences, and they are not irrational, and they DO look to various priests and bishops who say otherwise (not only SV but even not a few R&R), and the ONLY thing that gives the SSPX or any Trad clergy legitimacy is requests from the faithful to receive the Sacraments.  That is the only (supplied) authority they have.

But instead they tell people to just shut up and accept their judgment, or else leave.  Nothing can stop them from doing that, of course ... but whether it's right or wrong, good or sinful, that's a different matter, and they will be judged by God for this, for the turmoil they cause among the Trad faithful (throwing their concerns under the bus to appease the Modernists), for quite possibly subjecting the faithful to invalid Sacraments, and even potentially the loss of some souls, who perhaps could not make an act of perfect contrition but died with invalid Sacramental absolution from Presbyter Bob.

Consequences of administering conditional and being wrong? -- not much.  No sacrilege occurs, and God will certainly excuse, and even reward, doing this ... even if it's done just out of charity to make sure that no one attending an SSPX chapel should be at all disturbed in conscience about what they are or are not receiving there.

Consequences of NOT administering conditional and being wrong? ... extremely grave, possibly resulting in the loss of souls, including their own for subjecting the faithful to invalid Sacraments.

There's simply NO CONTEST here, ZERO justification for refusing to administer the Sacraments conditionally ... and it is ALL DONE for political reasons, and for nothing else, despite what they might pretend in public and claim, to appease the Modernists so they could be on "good terms" with "Bishop" Bill ... and possibly for some malicious bad actors in SSPX, the infiltrators, to deliberately cause the loss of souls.

And that's to say absolutely nothing about their betrayal of the faith, their being traitors to Tradition, by implicitly acknowledging that the aforementioned "Bishop" Bill is a Catholic, effectively saying that you can hold all these errors and heresies and still be a Catholic in good standing.  If that's the case, then there's zero justification for the existence of SSPX, and FSSP are the better option.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Mr G on August 28, 2025, 07:18:33 AM
SSPX Jubilee? Bishops of Rome? Mass and Calvary? St Matthias in Canon? Artificial wombs? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU_GSMvL3nA)
Go to min. 49:10, Fr. Jenkins talks about Fr. Robinson,
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 28, 2025, 07:57:58 AM
If I see someone commit a murder, I know that they are a murderer

If I hear someone say something heretical, I know that they are a heretic

You are guilty of a sin when you commit it. A sentence of guilt from the state or Church merely confirms that you are responsible for the crime
And you tell me. And then I find out it was actually self-defence and that what YOU thought you saw was in fact not quite the whole picture. This is why we have trials and do not let the individual string someone up to the nearest tree.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 28, 2025, 08:07:56 AM
:facepalm:  You continue to miss the forest for the trees.  There's such a thing as "the court of public opinion" and it's a real thing.  There's also the judgement of GOD, right at the point of sin.  The legal courts (either secular or ecclesiastical) are simply playing catch-up to what really happened.

Canon law has plenty of "ipso facto" penalties (spiritual) that happen immediately, even if the judgmenent of the Church (temporal) needs time to catch up.

......................
These 'ipso facto' penalties do not come from you. They are spiritual and come form God. God decides, not you. We cannot attempt to read another mans soul without a proper trial. It's that simple. Again, you can say that his works smacks of heresy etc but YOU cannot declare him a heretic and try and get everyone else to declare him a heretic as you would be stepping outside your competence and committing the sin of usurpation as outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas. All your justifications have no place here.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: WorldsAway on August 28, 2025, 08:25:59 AM
And you tell me. And then I find out it was actually self-defence and that what YOU thought you saw was in fact not quite the whole picture. This is why we have trials and do not let the individual string someone up to the nearest tree.
That's not what I said. I didn't say "If I think I see", but "If I see". And anyways, my testimony, being a firsthand witness, would be used as evidence of said murderers guilt.

To make it more clear for you, If I see someone walk up behind a little child playing with a ball and shoot them in the head, that is murder. I don't need a court to tell me the murderer is guilty. I, having eyes, ears, and a brain, know what I saw and heard and can form a judgement about what happened based on those things. In fact, someone would be well within their rights, and in some circuмstances actually morally compelled, to shoot the murderer dead, if they posed a continued threat to anyone else around them. You do not need secular or church authority to tell you that they are a threat. Many people would end up murdered that way

Likewise, If you hear someone say "Jesus Christ is only man, and not God", you know they are a heretic because that is contrary to Christ's doctrine. You do not need the Church to give a formal sentence against that person as a heretic for you to know that. You know it because you know what they said is contrary to Catholic teaching. If you know someone is a heretic, even without a sentence from the Church, you are justified, and probably morally compelled in some circuмstances, to warn others that the person is a heretic, because they pose a threat to souls. You do not need permission from the Church to do that, because many people may end up in hell if they are influence by the heretic 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: WorldsAway on August 28, 2025, 08:37:36 AM
These 'ipso facto' penalties do not come from you. They are spiritual and come form God. God decides, not you. We cannot attempt to read another mans soul without a proper trial. It's that simple. Again, you can say that his works smacks of heresy etc but YOU cannot declare him a heretic and try and get everyone else to declare him a heretic as you would be stepping outside your competence and committing the sin of usurpation as outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas. All your justifications have no place here.
No court, civil or ecclesiastical, can "attempt to read another man's soul". That is reserved to God alone, as only He knows the disposition of someone's soul. Humans judge outward actions.

Very simple:

Christ teaches X

Bob says Y, which is contrary to X

Bob is a heretic
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 28, 2025, 09:17:53 AM
These 'ipso facto' penalties do not come from you. They are spiritual and come form God. God decides, not you. We cannot attempt to read another mans soul without a proper trial. It's that simple. Again, you can say that his works smacks of heresy etc but YOU cannot declare him a heretic and try and get everyone else to declare him a heretic as you would be stepping outside your competence and committing the sin of usurpation as outlined by St. Thomas Aquinas. All your justifications have no place here.
No.  Not all ipso facto are spiritual.  It’s in canon law, which is human law.  

You’re basically arguing the same thing as Siscoe/Salza.  Nothing happens until the Church decides.  So that means (stupidly) that Biden and Peℓσѕι are Catholics in good standing.  

Ladislaus, is Boru either Sisco or Salza??
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 28, 2025, 09:19:44 AM
No court, civil or ecclesiastical, can "attempt to read another man's soul". That is reserved to God alone, as only He knows the disposition of someone's soul. Humans judge outward actions.

Very simple:

Christ teaches X

Bob says Y, which is contrary to X

Bob is a heretic
Exactly.  There are various levels of heresy.  The church only decides on the top-tier cases.  
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 09:44:27 AM
No.  Not all ipso facto are spiritual.  It’s in canon law, which is human law. 

You’re basically arguing the same thing as Siscoe/Salza.  Nothing happens until the Church decides.  So that means (stupidly) that Biden and Peℓσѕι are Catholics in good standing. 

Ladislaus, is Boru either Sisco or Salza??

I wouldn't rule it out ... though she claims to be a woman, though I myself had been suspicious of that myself.  We could ask.  I think I recall some outright denials from them on past accounts when they were in fact later confirmed to be Siscoe or Salza, so not sure if just asking her (?) outright would make a difference.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 28, 2025, 10:21:55 AM
Borat continues to lie by claiming this is a sedevacantist concern ... earlier claiming it was made up by the Dimonds, and having been duly corrected, can no longer be accused of not lying.

Indeed, SSPX can do what they want.  They always have, since their hubris prevents them from acknowledging that anyone who disagrees with them ever has any legitimate point. 

We're calling them out for being wicked and evil, and they will be judged by God for subjecting the faithful to Sacraments laboring under positive doubt.  God will hold them accountable, and we're calling them out.  It goes without saying that they will do whatever they will do, so Borat can keep bloviating as long as she wants.

Borat too will be judged, since she defends and thereby helps to enable this wickedness.

You sir are extremely vocal and aggressive about getting everyone to desert the Church, leave the SSPX, leave the Resistance even, and become a Sede-vacantist like yourself. What is your real agenda?

Perhaps you need a lesson in basic catechism: Article IX, The Catechism of the Council of Trent, TAN book:

"First, as St. Augustine observes, the Prophets spoke more plainly of the Church than Christ, foreseeing that on this a much greater number may err and be deceived than on the mystery of the Incarnation. For in after ages there would not be wanting wicked men, who, like the ape that would fain pass for a man, would claim that they alone were Catholics, and with no less impiety than effrontery assert that with them alone is the Catholic Church."

"For a person is not to be called a heretic as soon as he shall have offended in matters of faith; but he is a heretic who, having disregarded the authority of the Church, maintains impious opinions with pertinacity."

"The Church..as the scriptures and writings of the Saints testify, includes within her fold the good and the bad..Hence there are but three classes of persons excluded from the Church's pale: infidels, heretics and schismatics, and excommunicated persons...but with regard to the rest...even the lives of ministers debased by crime, they are still within the Church, and therefore lose nothing of their power."

"...the Church is known and is compared to a city built on a mountain, and visible from every side. As all must yield obedience to her authority, it is necessary that she be known by all."

"The Church has but one ruler and one governor, the invisible one, Christ, whom the eternal Father hath made over all the Church, which is His body; (and) the visible one, the Pope, who as legitimate successor of Peter..fills the Apostolic chair."

"St. Jerome...'Following no chief but Christ, I am united in communion with your holiness, that is, the chair of Peter. I know that on that rock is built the Church. Whoever will eat the lamb outside this house is profane; whoever is not in the ark of Noah shall perish in the flood'."

"Christ (is) not only the author of all the Sacraments, but also their invisible minster - He it is who baptizes, He it is who absolves...although men are appointed by Him the external ministers of the Sacraments...so has He placed over His Church, which he governs by His invisible Spirit, a (visible) man to be His vicar and the minister of His power. A visible Church requires a visible head..."

"Be careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; one body and one Spirit."

In 1884, satan challenged Christ to test His Church. Pope Leo XIII heard him ask for 100 years. Christ agreed.
In 1884 the Fabian society (Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ by infiltration) was set up to infiltrate government, schools and the Church. Agents by the hundreds were sent undercover to flood these establishments. The plan? Stealth mode; pretend to be what you are not in order to slowly change the establishment to your way of thinking from within. Thanks to Pope Pius X, this test was checked somewhat and calmed the storm. But the enemies resurfaced at Vatican II.  This is a test. What we are going through is that very test that Christ agreed to. Its a test of faith, of trust and a test of loyalty. It is the flood of old. We know what the Church is. The Body of Christ; visible and invisible. Head and members. Good and bad. Peter and Judas. And as it is divine, it is indefectable and eternal. Satan could only touch the human element; he could not touch the divine.

Since around 1984, the traditional movement within the Church has blossomed. Satan failed as Christ knew he would. The storm has been receding and its only a matter of time before the Church regains her former glory.

We must stay with the Ark and ride out the final throes of the debasing storm.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: basilwarden on August 28, 2025, 11:08:16 AM
You sir are extremely vocal and aggressive about getting everyone to desert the Church, leave the SSPX, leave the Resistance even, and become a Sede-vacantist like yourself. What is your real agenda?

Perhaps you need a lesson in basic catechism: Article IX, The Catechism of the Council of Trent, TAN book:

"First, as St. Augustine observes, the Prophets spoke more plainly of the Church than Christ, foreseeing that on this a much greater number may err and be deceived than on the mystery of the Incarnation. For in after ages there would not be wanting wicked men, who, like the ape that would fain pass for a man, would claim that they alone were Catholics, and with no less impiety than effrontery assert that with them alone is the Catholic Church."

"For a person is not to be called a heretic as soon as he shall have offended in matters of faith; but he is a heretic who, having disregarded the authority of the Church, maintains impious opinions with pertinacity."

"The Church..as the scriptures and writings of the Saints testify, includes within her fold the good and the bad..Hence there are but three classes of persons excluded from the Church's pale: infidels, heretics and schismatics, and excommunicated persons...but with regard to the rest...even the lives of ministers debased by crime, they are still within the Church, and therefore lose nothing of their power."

"...the Church is known and is compared to a city built on a mountain, and visible from every side. As all must yield obedience to her authority, it is necessary that she be known by all."

"The Church has but one ruler and one governor, the invisible one, Christ, whom the eternal Father hath made over all the Church, which is His body; (and) the visible one, the Pope, who as legitimate successor of Peter..fills the Apostolic chair."

"St. Jerome...'Following no chief but Christ, I am united in communion with your holiness, that is, the chair of Peter. I know that on that rock is built the Church. Whoever will eat the lamb outside this house is profane; whoever is not in the ark of Noah shall perish in the flood'."

"Christ (is) not only the author of all the Sacraments, but also their invisible minster - He it is who baptizes, He it is who absolves...although men are appointed by Him the external ministers of the Sacraments...so has He placed over His Church, which he governs by His invisible Spirit, a (visible) man to be His vicar and the minister of His power. A visible Church requires a visible head..."

"Be careful to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace; one body and one Spirit."

In 1884, satan challenged Christ to test His Church. Pope Leo XIII heard him ask for 100 years. Christ agreed.
In 1884 the Fabian society (Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ by infiltration) was set up to infiltrate government, schools and the Church. Agents by the hundreds were sent undercover to flood these establishments. The plan? Stealth mode; pretend to be what you are not in order to slowly change the establishment to your way of thinking from within. Thanks to Pope Pius X, this test was checked somewhat and calmed the storm. But the enemies resurfaced at Vatican II.  This is a test. What we are going through is that very test that Christ agreed to. Its a test of faith, of trust and a test of loyalty. It is the flood of old. We know what the Church is. The Body of Christ; visible and invisible. Head and members. Good and bad. Peter and Judas. And as it is divine, it is indefectable and eternal. Satan could only touch the human element; he could not touch the divine.

Since around 1984, the traditional movement within the Church has blossomed. Satan failed as Christ knew he would. The storm has been receding and its only a matter of time before the Church regains her former glory.

We must stay with the Ark and ride out the final throes of the debasing storm.
Do you reject Vatican 2?
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 12:38:42 PM
You sir are extremely vocal and aggressive about getting everyone to desert the Church, leave the SSPX, leave the Resistance even, and become a Sede-vacantist like yourself. What is your real agenda?

How is it that you refuse to stop with the lies and the gaslighting?  I've said very little about sedevacantism during this time other than stating that the question of Holy Ordrers is NOT a sedevacantist issue, but also troubles many R&R.  In fact, I regularly attend the chapel of an R&R priest, an independent priest, and he holds NO Orders to be invalid.  And the other point I raised is where your principle of disciplinary infallibility is one you share with the sedevacantists (including myself).

If my point was to have everyone go sedevacantist, I wouldn't have even bothered, but would have just said, "See, doubtful Orders, immediately leave SSPX and go to your nearest SV chapel."  This thing was precisely in order to do a service to those who do in fact attend SSPX chapels, i.e. making it possible for them to continue going their with peace of soul ... therefore exactly the opposite of trying to get them to leave the SSPX.

Nor have I said a word about the Resistance.

I'm actually "persona non grata" to many SVs, since I also believe in the necessity of Baptism for salvation.

I have NEVER adhered to any single group, and my opinions are extremely eclectic, where I agree and disagree with just about every single "group" out there on one point or another

My "agenda" is truth, and the truth of this matter is obvious.  But your arguments are so utterly absurd, that it is clearly YOU who have the agenda.  I am quite open to persuasion that there's no positive doubt regarding NO Orders, except that nothing that even remotely resembles a convincing argument has ever been offered.

You continue to lie and to gaslight.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Everlast22 on August 28, 2025, 12:45:46 PM
I'm seeing a pattern on almost all Catholic forums, Youtube comments, x spaces, etc., spamming the same bullshit

Catholics looking into traditionalism and the objective in-your-face apostasy with careful research.

Then,

Every one of those spaces getting infiltrated by plants, like the usual pope-splaining suspects in Cathinfo for instance. 

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 12:48:11 PM
Since around 1984, the traditional movement within the Church has blossomed. Satan failed as Christ knew he would. The storm has been receding and its only a matter of time before the Church regains her former glory.

We must stay with the Ark and ride out the final throes of the debasing storm.

Yeah, it's becoming more and more likely that this troll is Salza now identifying as a woman ... given this reference to "traditional movement within the Church", as opposed to Traditional movement "outside the Church" ... which is where Salza would put SSPX.  Hike up your skirt, Salza, and get out of here.

Every time Salza has come on here, he started trolling by attacking sedevacantists, attempting to win support from R&R in order to "divide and conquer", but then gradually reveals (when pushed into a corner) that he holds that even SSPX are "outside the Church".

Only reason there was ANY "traditional movement within [sic] the [Conciliar] Church [sic]" was because of +Lefebvre.  Wojtyla permitted the Indult as a way to neutralize the growing SSPX, and then the various "Ecclesia Dei" groups sprung up after the consecrations.  Ratzinger admitted that his goal with the "Motu" was to reabsorb Traditional Catholics into the Conciliar sect.

I told you that Borat troll had some personal motivation.  S/he (what's your pronound today, Salza?) has been getting Sacraments from doubtful FSSP and ICK presbyters, and so is desperately tyring to argue for their validity.  You're better off finding the truth, rather than trying to engage in wishful thinking, since if you're not receiving valid Sacraments, making yourself feel better through self-deception won't profit you much in the end.

No SSPX partisan would have argued from the Church's disciplinary infallibility.  That line of argument is simply NOT one of the ones in their arsenal, since they've been decades minimizing and rejecting it, and explaining it away ... since it has in fact been a major point of argument against them from the SVs.

We have here a Motarian troll, most likely Salza and/or Siscoe, or if this is a woman, some partisan (or significant other) of Salza and/or Siscoe.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 12:53:52 PM
Before posting again, Borat ... recalling that it's a lie to sin ...

1) Are you Salza, Siscoe, or some close ally to one of these?

2) Are you the poster formerly known by various names, such as Xavier, XavierSem, Nishant, and others ... or someone associated with him?

3) Do you even attend SSPX chapels or are you an "Ecclesia Dei" type ... FSSP / ICK/ Motu, one of those "approved" varieties?
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 12:57:14 PM
Do you reject Vatican 2?

You caught on as well, where Borat referred to the Traditional movement WITHIN the Church (starting in 1984), thereby exclusing SSPX, which had been flourishing well before 1984.

Of course, the ridiculous private interpretation regarding 1884 and 1984 (I hold it's 75 years, one version of the vision, and that it was from 1958 until 2033) ... this makes it sound like we could be dealing here with Xavier, and or possibly his significant other, as Xavier got married not too long ago.  So perhaps, if this is really a woman, Xavier could have sent her over here to continue his mission to conver millions.  Xavier was very fond of attempting to draw theological conclusions from (his interpretations of) private revelation (even dubious ones).
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Octavius7 on August 28, 2025, 01:06:09 PM
Before posting again, Borat ... recalling that it's a lie to sin ...

1) Are you Salza, Siscoe, or some close ally to one of these?

2) Are you the poster formerly known by various names, such as Xavier, XavierSem, Nishant, and others ... or someone associated with him?

3) Do you even attend SSPX chapels or are you an "Ecclesia Dei" type ... FSSP / ICK/ Motu, one of those "approved" varieties?
Good call
Title: Trad Ilk, Reject Vatican II
Post by: Twice dyed on August 28, 2025, 01:12:09 PM
Do you reject Vatican 2?
I do reject Vatican too!

Let's start a group called Trad Ilk. Well you see: there's Lefebvrists, Williamson supporters, Surge Domine +Vigano, there's Trad Inc.  , FSSP, ECCLESIA DEI, motu, ICK , Indulterers,Tradie Land, the Resistance, the Resistants, hewkonians, pheifferites, RadTrads, France Fidèle, Una cuм, non Una cuм, cuм Petro, trad Seminaries, trad forums CI,  CatholicTwumpet(■), neoSSPX, Dr. K trads(unprude), Carmelites
 hermitage, Benedictines, CMRI, Franciscan nuns, papists,  Myriad Sedes  etc.

Fr. Hesse doubted that Vatican II was valid...it was only to be a PASTORAL Council...then look what satan hath wrought: rot.
So anyone who rejects Vatican II and its reforms would be eligible to join. Ilk looks a lot like ill, because the loose pockets of the Resistance is really ill, so many splits, fake this or that, few masses and sacraments ( think Homealoners).
Strickly speaking, a recent thread said that we layfolk are not " Resistance " of SSPX...only ex- Sspx members are unofficially resisting.  They don't have a leader...yet.
Just a thought.

ilk: meaning of that kind or sort.
It's also an ARCHAIC term - great for us dinosaurs♡ !
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Matthew on August 28, 2025, 01:35:24 PM
I do reject Vatican too!

Let's start a group called Trad Ilk. Well you see: there's Lefebvrists, Williamson supporters

How are you dealing with the Crisis in the Church may I ask?

What group are you associated with? You act like you're above it all.

It's a huge red flag when anyone starts bashing the Traditional Movement, criticizing its lack of unity for example. That is to be expected when we don't have a Pope. (And no, Tradition doesn't have "a Pope", since even sede-plenists have to disobey the recent Modernist Popes, and certainly can't claim him as any source of unity or leadership for their lifeboat/resistance Traditional Movement group)
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 01:42:31 PM
How are you dealing with the Crisis in the Church may I ask?

What group are you associated with? You act like you're above it all.

See, I couldn't even make heads or tails out of that last rant.  I was going to ask if he had forgotten to take his meds. :laugh1:

Some of the "groups" were actually the same, with slight variations on names, others weren't really groups in the sense of taking different positions, but just different Orders, organizations, etc.  That whole thing was a mess that gave me a headache to read.  I opted to make no comment.

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Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 28, 2025, 04:08:11 PM
I'm seeing a pattern on almost all Catholic forums, Youtube comments, x spaces, etc., spamming the same bullshit

Catholics looking into traditionalism and the objective in-your-face apostasy with careful research.

Then,

Every one of those spaces getting infiltrated by plants, like the usual pope-splaining suspects in Cathinfo for instance.
Boru is the definition of a spam bot.  Never responds to arguments.  Re-posts same points.  Makes crazy claims with no proof. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Twice dyed on August 28, 2025, 05:11:04 PM
How are you dealing with the Crisis in the Church may I ask?

What group are you associated with? You act like you're above it all.

It's a huge red flag when anyone starts bashing the Traditional Movement, criticizing its lack of unity for example. That is to be expected when we don't have a Pope.
I don't mean to bash groups, I was simply showing some groups that are not happy with Modernist Rome. 
I get ~ 5 masses / year. I don't hate the neoSspx, I just pray they return with their fighting spirit.
  But everyone should agree that these are CONFUSING times...that's my point.
I also pray for Pope Leo XIV every day, so that he converts back to the TRUTH. 

Satan promotes divisions, so let's work for Christ the King!
St. Augustine pray for us +

And CathInfo is important to get everyone on the same page. Not to argue to win arguments, but to find the TRUTH, as Fr. Hesse spoke.
God Bless+

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 28, 2025, 07:47:28 PM
How is it that you refuse to stop with the lies and the gaslighting?  I've said very little about sedevacantism during this time other than stating that the question of Holy Ordrers is NOT a sedevacantist issue, but also troubles many R&R.  In fact, I regularly attend the chapel of an R&R priest, an independent priest, and he holds NO Orders to be invalid.  And the other point I raised is where your principle of disciplinary infallibility is one you share with the sedevacantists (including myself).

* Stop the equivocating. You never stop pounding us with how all the new rite sacraments are invalid, how the Pope is not the Pope, how "evil and wicked" the SSPX is. And where do you do it - here on a forum full of Resistance faithful; grooming your audience. If any one crosses you, they get a string of aggressive name-calling that makes Luther sound like a gentleman.

If my point was to have everyone go sedevacantist, I wouldn't have even bothered, but would have just said, "See, doubtful Orders, immediately leave SSPX and go to your nearest SV chapel."  This thing was precisely in order to do a service to those who do in fact attend SSPX chapels, i.e. making it possible for them to continue going their with peace of soul ... therefore exactly the opposite of trying to get them to leave the SSPX.

Nor have I said a word about the Resistance.

I'm actually "persona non grata" to many SVs, since I also believe in the necessity of Baptism for salvation.

I have NEVER adhered to any single group, and my opinions are extremely eclectic, where I agree and disagree with just about every single "group" out there on one point or another

My "agenda" is truth, and the truth of this matter is obvious.  But your arguments are so utterly absurd, that it is clearly YOU who have the agenda.  I am quite open to persuasion that there's no positive doubt regarding NO Orders, except that nothing that even remotely resembles a convincing argument has ever been offered.

* Your agenda Sir is ensure the truth is distorted. Any time someone makes a negative comment about the Church or the SSPX, you get in there and drive the nail home no matter how slanderous it is; you literally jump at any opportunity and put your own spin on it.

You continue to lie and to gaslight.

* I assure you I try never to lie. Lying is cowardly.

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 28, 2025, 07:57:36 PM
Before posting again, Borat ... recalling that it's a lie to sin ...

1) Are you Salza, Siscoe, or some close ally to one of these?

2) Are you the poster formerly known by various names, such as Xavier, XavierSem, Nishant, and others ... or someone associated with him?

3) Do you even attend SSPX chapels or are you an "Ecclesia Dei" type ... FSSP / ICK/ Motu, one of those "approved" varieties?
Ask me again nicely without the juvenile name-calling. Let us see if you can act like a gentleman.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 28, 2025, 08:41:09 PM
Ask me again nicely without the juvenile name-calling. Let us see if you can act like a gentleman.
Dodge #1.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 28, 2025, 10:54:37 PM
Dodge #1.

Right ... the answer to at least one and most likely 2 of the questions is a Yes.  I've been calling this Conciliar troll Borat (aka Jew Sacha Cohen) for a while, and NOW s/he uses it as an excuse not to answer a post.  I can't decide if s/he is Salza or Nishant just yet.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 28, 2025, 11:38:40 PM
Right ... the answer to at least one and most likely 2 of the questions is a Yes.  I've been calling this Conciliar troll Borat (aka Jew Sacha Cohen) for a while, and NOW s/he uses it as an excuse not to answer a post.  I can't decide if s/he is Salza or Nishant just yet.
Nishant's posts weren't as coherant as Borat's. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Mark 79 on August 29, 2025, 04:02:18 AM
[blah… blah… blah…]
^^^ The latest shit-disturber.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Everlast22 on August 29, 2025, 06:35:46 AM
Ask me again nicely without the juvenile name-calling. Let us see if you can act like a gentleman.
My mother would say this when she 100 percent was wrong on something. :laugh1:

Modern woman for ya
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 29, 2025, 07:37:15 AM
My mother would say this when she 100 percent was wrong on something. :laugh1:

*Sounds more like your mother was a lovely person who deserved more respect than someone gave her ...

Modern woman for ya

*Blame it on my love of horses! :laugh2:

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Everlast22 on August 29, 2025, 07:38:41 AM
Boru - My mother is a lovely person, but she's still a woman. And I treat her very well, so please keep your coal filled mouth shut
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 29, 2025, 08:07:32 AM


Dodge #2.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Pax Vobis on August 29, 2025, 08:07:59 AM
Boru -- Dodge #2.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: cassini on August 29, 2025, 11:22:31 AM

And I do absolutely DESPISE this heretical teaching of Father Paul Robinson.  I've actually seen the destructiveness of this in action, after 7 years of being taught the exact same garbage by the Jesuits, first in High School, then at University (both Jesuit).  I saw many young men at the Jesuit High School lose the faith because they were immediately taught that the Book of Genesis was a myth, there weren't a real Adam and Eve, that these are all stories to make a point, that the Bible didn't intend to teach about history or science, that the parting of the Red Sea was just because at certain times this marsh they walked through would recede, and on and on and on.  That's where the Modernists got their start, attacking Sacred Scripture.  What else was just something "not intended by Scripture".  Oh, St. Paul, in his misogynistic passages, was just reflecting the attitude of his times, and that wasn't the Holy Ghost teaching that (for those who even believed that the Holy Ghost had anything to do with Sacred Scripture).  What's next?  This type of crap shattered the faith of countless young men at my Jesuit All-Boys' High School.

So, I will not hold punches, I will not be "nice" or "nithe" ... since the fact that he poses at a Traditional priest makes him THAT MUCH MORE DANGEROUS, since the more dressing you put on top of the poison, the more likely people are to swallow it.  If the same thing were said by some Jesuit wearing a rainbow stole while officiating a clown Mass, people of good faith would immediately recognize it as heresy and reject it outright.  But put the same nonsense behind a Trad priest using all the smells and bells, and "well, I guess it must be OK to think this way".

NO !!!  Father Paul Robinson is a Modernist Heretic, and his book belongs on the Index.  And the SSPX should be condemned for approving of and promoting his book.  People have been burned at the stake for FAR LESS than what he holds and teaches.

Galileo was condemned as a heretic for FAR LESS, for something that could even be debated slightly more, i.e. by claiming that when Sacred Scripture says that the sun moved or the sun stopped, this really means that the earth stopped, etc.  In a sense, motion is relative, so one could make a better case for that.

But Sacred Scripture clearly teaches that during the Great Deluge, the ENTIRE earth was covered with water, the peaks of ALL the mountains, and that ALL flesh was destroyed from the earth except those in the ark ... that does not mean there was a local flood in the Mediterranean basin that wiped out maybe 10% of all humanity, covered NO mountain peaks (since the water would quickly dissipate below that level) ... and where instead of spending decades building an Ark, Noah could have just packed up and moved a couple hundred miles.  There's no way to RESCUE that without having to attribute error to Sacred Scripture.  That's heresy.  St. Robert Bellarmine declared that Galileo was heretical not because scientific matters themselves can be heretical, but because by implication he denied the inerrancy of Sacred Scripture, by contradicting it, i.e. his positions were heretical not ex parte objecti, sed ex parte Dicentis, not because of the objective content but because of WHO TAUGHT IT, namely, the Holy Ghost.

Now if I say ... "Well ... in my opinion, it's just that, I think Father Robinson is mistaken." and of course I add, "oh, but I have the greatest respect for him, and he's a wonderful Trad priest, just that he's wrong about this." ... what would I be doing?  I'd be CONDONING THE HERESY, saying it's just opinion, and that it's no big deal and does nothing to detract from how great a priest he is, etc. etc.  Sorry.  No can do.  I call out heresy as heresy.

I mentioned that the Councils declared anathemas against heretics.  Well, they often added anathemas against those who TOLERATED heresies and effectively being complicit in them and enabling them.  If I "softened" up against Father Robinson, I'd become an enabler of his heresies, and I refuse to do that.  I will not be party to the wreckage of faith his errors can cause and have caused.  Also, even charity toward the heretic requires being blunt and direct.  Had the Dubia "Cardinals" just come straight out and said he was teaching heresy ... I think that could have caused a massive cascading effect in the Church.  Instead, most of those who self-identify as Catholic might have mentioned a thing or two about it on X, until they got bored, and moved on with a yawn.

I have just read through this post on Fr Paul Robinson and Ladislaus's reference to his heresies in his book : A Realist Guide to Religion and Science, Gracewing, 2018. Based on this book alone, it is obvious Fr Robinson teaches heretical stuff, and even atheistic stuff according to St Augustine, stuff lauded on this book's website.

Here are a few examples:

‘Does the Bible want us to read it like a science textbook using scientific language? Or is it meant to be read in another way? The answer is obvious from the very beginning of the Bible; which presents serious challenges for anyone seeking to find properly scientific information about the formation of the world, at least anyone possessing today’s extensive knowledge of the universe’s true architecture.’--- Fr Paul Robinson SSPX. p.247-8.

So, according to Fr Robinson, ignore that supernatural creation of Genesis, and believe my scientific version.

‘Galileo’s aggressiveness at a sensitive time about a delicate issue, combined with his lack of scientific proof, drew down upon him a condemnation of the Church. That condemnation admittedly went too far, but in no way did it involve the Church’s infallibility or make geocentrism a dogma of Catholic belief.’ (Reference given was Arthur Koestler’s, The Sleepwalkers) --- Fr Paul Robinson: Ibid, p.284.

‘As Fr Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) points out, it was not really until a statistically significant parallax shift was observed that heliocentrism was grounded in strict scientific evidence.’--- Fr Paul Robinson; p. 282.
Given stellar parallax is found in a geocentric universe it is NOT proof that the decrees for Biblical geocentrism was ever proven wrong.

‘This position on the Flood as being graphically universal meets with serious scientific difficulties. For one, how can you get enough rain to cover the entire earth?…Clearly this is popular, not a scientific description….To impose a scientific sense upon the Bible then is to do violence to the sacred text and the divinely intended meaning.’--- Fr Paul Robinson: pp. 274-5.

In his book, The City of God, St Augustine replies to the likes of Fr Robinson:

‘Who but an atheist, first they imagine it impossible that any flood should become so huge as to exceed the height of any mountain fifteen cubits.’(Ch. XXVII)

So, according to Fr Robinson, not even God could ‘get’ enough water to cover all mountains of the entire Earth. Why then did Moses tell us in Genesis chapter nine that there will never be another such ‘cataclysmos’ flooding of the Earth like that of Noah’s and that God created the rainbow under the clouds as a sign of this promise? Given that local floods happen all the time on Earth, are they inferring God went back on His word thereafter?

‘From a scientific perspective, the universe began its infancy at time 0, 13.7 billion years ago, it is now in its middle age, and it is heading toward old age billions of years in the distant future. The triumph of the Big Bang theory was a triumph for science, for the universe corresponding to it can be explored by the scientific mind to an astonishing level of detail.’---Fr Paul Robinson SSPX: Realist Guide, p.366-7.

No wonder the supernatural creation of Genesis is long gone. On the 16th June, 2025, the newly elected Pope, Leo XIV, addressed young astronomy students learning at the Vatican Observatory, encouraging them to share their discoveries and the joy of learning about the universe. He then tells them they will confirm every secular theory of a natural evolved Creation.

‘Students will focus on the telescope’s contributions over the last three years to the evolution of galaxies, birth of stars, and planetary systems and the origin of life. “For the first time, we are able to peer deeply into the atmosphere of exoplanets where life may be developing and study the nebulae where planetary systems themselves are forming.” Pope Leo said “The authors of sacred scripture, writing so many centuries ago, did not have the benefit of this privilege, yet their poetic and religious imagination pondered what the moment of creation must have been like.” Pope Leo discussed scientists’ ability to trace “the ancient light of distant galaxies,” which he said “speaks of the very beginning of our universe’--- EWTN website.

On goes Fr Robinson's heresies, those that caused Bruno to be burned at the stake, now passed on to the next generation.                                                                                                                         
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Matthew on August 29, 2025, 04:53:24 PM
The heretics (objective definition; they are Protestant) at Answers in Genesis got it more right than Fr. Robinson.

At least they understand that the whole foundation of Scripture as truth starts with Genesis. Even Our Lord referenced Genesis. If Genesis is a myth or a poem, then the WHOLE of Scripture topples like a house of cards. INCLUDING the New Testament.

Ken Ham (again, a protestant) makes MANY GOOD, AIR-TIGHT ARGUMENTS for a literal six days creation as outlined in Genesis:

* You can't have death & disease before the Fall
* If it was a local flood, then God broke his promise because there are local floods ALL THE TIME
* If it was a local flood, why didn't God tell Noe to take his family on VACATION rather than wasting time & effort building an ark for several decades? And why take all the animals, if plenty of animals are going to survive anyhow, being outside a small, local bubble of destruction in the Middle East?
* Genesis does literally say the water topped the mountaintops. What happens if you did that? It would spill over to the other side of the mountain, right? If it were truly local, then GENESIS IS PROVEN FALSE and the whole of Scripture unravels like a cheap suit. Are we prepared to jettison Holy Scripture in favor of the modern priesthood of scientists who lie more often than not? Who preach mathematical impossibility and absurdity as the gospel truth?
* If you want to translate the Hebrew accurately, according to the usual rules of translation, it would read: "On the second 24-hour day, God created..." Look into it. The Hebrew "yom" (day) means 24-hour day if you put a number by it, and a couple other markers. Guess what? God made sure ALL those markers were there, as if to EMPHASIZE to our own 21st century that He meant a 24-hour day!

Not to mention the fact that there is tons of evidence for a GLOBAL flood. Countless pagan nations have a flood legend, and there is scientific evidence all over the world for the Flood. There are buried fossils, laid down by rapid water and sediment, buried in layers, all over the earth. The only reasonable explanation is a catastrophic flood.

Modern scientists believe "Uniformitarianism" (I think that's the term) basically "as today, so was yesterday". Basically, they believe that there are never any red-letter or black swan events about ANYTHING. Everything is slow & steady, predictable natural processes. But the hypocrites make an exception for the Big Bang, which was obviously an extraordinary event. So they can't even stay consistent with their own made up nonsense.

Oh, and there is no evidence for molecules to man evolution. Not a whit. Information is NEVER created, unless by God directly. Random chance, and natural selection, only ELIMINATES genetic information -- it doesn't design or create ANY new information or features. This can't be demonstrated ANYWHERE. Evolution is COMPLETELY unscientific, having zero evidence.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 29, 2025, 05:06:52 PM
...A Realist Guide to Religion and Science, Gracewing, 2018. Based on this book alone, it is obvious Fr Robinson teaches heretical stuff, and even atheistic stuff according to St Augustine, stuff lauded on this book's website.

Here are a few examples:

‘Does the Bible want us to read it like a science textbook using scientific language? Or is it meant to be read in another way? The answer is obvious from the very beginning of the Bible; which presents serious challenges for anyone seeking to find properly scientific information about the formation of the world, at least anyone possessing today’s extensive knowledge of the universe’s true architecture.’--- Fr Paul Robinson SSPX. p.247-8.

So, according to Fr Robinson, ignore that supernatural creation of Genesis, and believe my scientific version.

‘Galileo’s aggressiveness at a sensitive time about a delicate issue, combined with his lack of scientific proof, drew down upon him a condemnation of the Church. That condemnation admittedly went too far, but in no way did it involve the Church’s infallibility or make geocentrism a dogma of Catholic belief.’ (Reference given was Arthur Koestler’s, The Sleepwalkers) --- Fr Paul Robinson: Ibid, p.284.

‘As Fr Stanley Jaki (1924-2009) points out, it was not really until a statistically significant parallax shift was observed that heliocentrism was grounded in strict scientific evidence.’--- Fr Paul Robinson; p. 282.
Given stellar parallax is found in a geocentric universe it is NOT proof that the decrees for Biblical geocentrism was ever proven wrong.

‘This position on the Flood as being graphically universal meets with serious scientific difficulties. For one, how can you get enough rain to cover the entire earth?…Clearly this is popular, not a scientific description….To impose a scientific sense upon the Bible then is to do violence to the sacred text and the divinely intended meaning.’--- Fr Paul Robinson: pp. 274-5.

In his book, The City of God, St Augustine replies to the likes of Fr Robinson:

‘Who but an atheist, first they imagine it impossible that any flood should become so huge as to exceed the height of any mountain fifteen cubits.’(Ch. XXVII)

So, according to Fr Robinson, not even God could ‘get’ enough water to cover all mountains of the entire Earth. Why then did Moses tell us in Genesis chapter nine that there will never be another such ‘cataclysmos’ flooding of the Earth like that of Noah’s and that God created the rainbow under the clouds as a sign of this promise? Given that local floods happen all the time on Earth, are they inferring God went back on His word thereafter?

‘From a scientific perspective, the universe began its infancy at time 0, 13.7 billion years ago, it is now in its middle age, and it is heading toward old age billions of years in the distant future. The triumph of the Big Bang theory was a triumph for science, for the universe corresponding to it can be explored by the scientific mind to an astonishing level of detail.’---Fr Paul Robinson SSPX: Realist Guide, p.366-7.

No wonder the supernatural creation of Genesis is long gone. On the 16th June, 2025, the newly elected Pope, Leo XIV, addressed young astronomy students learning at the Vatican Observatory, encouraging them to share their discoveries and the joy of learning about the universe. He then tells them they will confirm every secular theory of a natural evolved Creation.

‘Students will focus on the telescope’s contributions over the last three years to the evolution of galaxies, birth of stars, and planetary systems and the origin of life. “For the first time, we are able to peer deeply into the atmosphere of exoplanets where life may be developing and study the nebulae where planetary systems themselves are forming.” Pope Leo said “The authors of sacred scripture, writing so many centuries ago, did not have the benefit of this privilege, yet their poetic and religious imagination pondered what the moment of creation must have been like.” Pope Leo discussed scientists’ ability to trace “the ancient light of distant galaxies,” which he said “speaks of the very beginning of our universe’--- EWTN website.

On goes Fr Robinson's heresies, those that caused Bruno to be burned at the stake, now passed on to the next generation.                                                                                                                       

Cassini, thank you for bringing this to our attention - I'm reasonably new here on Cathinfo. and although I had heard people at our chapel speaking against his book, I was unaware of the depth and scope of his errors. This has to be stopped.

Fr. Paul Robinson's book is selling for 52 euros (hardback) on Amazon. I checked ebay  - both Uk and America - and it is advertised there in abundance too. I agree, this is scandalous. It is scandalous that he hasn't been ordered to withdraw his books. And it is totally scandalous that YOUR book is not the one being promoted.

I read through one of the reviews that gave his book one star. It was posted by an American calling himself Christian. He provided what I thought was a thorough over-view. I will post it in abbreviated form here (please forgive the length but it raises some very good points from another Catholic's perspective (if there is anything questionable, please point out as it is not a topic I am familiar with other than historically):

Reviewed in the United States on 22 May 2018
Verified Purchase (https://www.amazon.ie/gp/help/customer/display.html/ref=cm_cr_dp_d_rvw_avp?nodeId=G8UYX7LALQC8V9KA)

 "... there are two serious objections (to this book): (1) it promotes the Big Bang theory (on p. 456) in the sense of “cosmic theistic evolution,” i.e., that God created the Big Bang and then guided the cosmic evolution of the universe through natural secondary causes over billions of years by the “fine-tuning of the universe necessary for stars, galaxies and planets to form,” and (2) it denies that Noah’s Flood was geographically universal over the entire earth.

--1. Even though Fr. Robinson claims to be promoting progressive creationism (p. 253), his position corresponds to cosmic theistic evolution because he says that, once God created the initial matter and energy of the Big Bang, the non-intelligent secondary causes of the universe did not require God’s direct and special causality and intervention to develop into galaxies, stars and planets. Progressive creationism, on the other hand, teaches that the physical universe and all life forms were created by the direct and special causality of God rather than by natural processes of secondary causes by themselves.

--Fr. Robinson’s explanation of cosmic evolution actually coincides with the Deist explanation of the creation and evolution of the universe, which compares God’s act of creation to that of a watchmaker who builds a watch, sets it in motion, and then no longer intervenes in its actions.
--Many Deists reject the possibility of miracles. They teach that after God established the natural laws of science and set the great cosmos in motion, He no longer needed to interact with His creation, since He endowed all the elements of the universe with the necessary forces to produce the formation of galaxies, stars and planets by themselves.
--However, some Deists do admit the possibility of miracles in exceptional cases, since God is all-powerful and can do whatever He wills, including temporarily bypassing his own natural laws.

--The natural religion of Deism is the foundation of Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ’s idea of God as the “Great Architect” of the Universe. The emblem of compass and square used in Fɾҽҽmαsσɳɾყ supposedly symbolizes the mathematic and scientific principles used by God to design the universe—as if referring to Wisdom 21:11, which says that God “hast ordered all things in measure, and number, and weight.”
--Thus, Fr. Robinson’s explanation of cosmic evolution tends to coincide with the Deist / Freemasonic idea that God should be seen as the Great Architect of the Universe, Who simply sets everything in motion for cosmic evolution after the Big Bang—by the “fine-tuning of the universe necessary for stars, galaxies and planets to form.”

--2. Fr. Robinson’s idea of cosmic evolution is not possible according to the very principles of causality. For God’s natural causality moves secondary causes according to their natural mode of operation. As St. Thomas Aquinas says: “Whatever is received, is received according to the mode of the receiver.” But the natural mode of operation of secondary causes of the universe (matter and energy, e.g., atoms, molecules, gases, gravity, etc.), is non-intelligent, for by nature they are blind forces. Thus, the natural motion they receive from God does not move them towards intelligent de-sign and complex order. It’s true that they possess a certain degree of intrinsic design (e.g., atomic structure, ordered mode of operation, etc.), but scientific evidence shows that they are not naturally predetermined, pre-programmed or “fine-tuned” to act intelligently and develop into the com-plex and beautiful design we see in the universe.

--Consequently, even though secondary causes of the universe can produce various effects with beauty and simple design (e.g., the formation of mountains, landscapes, oceans, lakes and rivers, waterfalls, the Grand Canyon, etc.), they cannot give themselves intelligent design, i.e., organize themselves and develop into the complex order and intelligent design of stars, galaxies and planets, without the direct and special intervention of God. This supernatural/special action of God is precisely His “six-day” work of creation and formation of all things in the universe, as revealed in Genesis and explained by St. Thomas Aquinas and the Fathers of the Church.

--3. Deleted as quite long, technical, and unnecessary for the purpose here.


--4. With regard to Creation Science and a young universe, St. Thomas Aquinas gives the reason why God can create the universe in a highly developed condition without the need of long periods of time to form into stars, galaxies and planets. He says: “God produces being in act out of nothing, and can, therefore, produce a perfect thing in an instant, according to the greatness of His power” (Summa: I,66,1,2). This principle applies to all being, whether organic or inorganic. Thus, if God created the universe this way, then even though it would have the physical perfection and development of an “ancient” universe, it would actually be very young.

--For example, the light produced by stars and galaxies would have extended great distances quickly across the universe without the need of millions/billions of years. Thus, we read in Isaiah 44:24: “I, the Lord, am the Maker of all things, stretching out the heavens by Myself, and spreading out the earth all alone.” (See also Isaiah 45:12). Similarly, the human body of Adam and Eve, along with the formation and development of the brain, vital organs, etc., did not need the normal 25-30 years necessary for development from an embryo to adulthood. Once God’s work of creation was finished and He rested on the “seventh day,” the universe—with its cosmic, chemical and biological perfection—simply continues in its existence and operation according to the normal laws of physics established by God.

--5..... Concerning Noah’s flood: (a) Evolutionary anthropologists are all convinced that the human race had spread over the entire earth by Noah’s time. Now, Christ himself declares that the flood took away “all” the people of the earth (Matt. 24:39). Therefore, Noah’s flood must have been geo-graphically universal; (b) There are seashells and other marine fossils on the summits of all the mountains in the world, including the Himalayas, Rockies and Andes. How could this be possible—unless all the mountains were under water at one time in the past?
--However, this doesn’t mean that the flood waters had to be as high as these mountains, because, according to Dr. Walter Brown’s “Hydroplate” theory, many major mountain chains only formed “during” the flood period, when the rising mid-oceanic ridges caused the tectonic plates—the hydroplates—to slide away from their fracture zones and to collide with each other and buckle. Those that buckled up-ward took marine fossils with them; those that buckled downward formed ocean trenches. Thus, in Gen. 7:11 we read: “All the fountains of the great deep were broken up and the flood gates of heaven were open.” Modern scientists themselves say that the Himalayas were formed when the continental plate of India slammed into the continental plate of Asia.

--6. According to Fr. Robinson, since the galaxies, stars and planets of the universe have the appearance of being formed over millions/billions of years, God could not have created them as described in Genesis, otherwise He would be intentionally deceiving mankind by making the universe look old when it is actually very young, thereby “preventing His rational creatures from using their reason to understand what He had created.”
-- However, this kind of thinking is not correct, for not only does it deny God’s right to give special and direct formation to His creation without the need of long periods of time, it also goes contrary to the reality that God did in fact bring into existence many creatures already formed and developed. For example, Adam and Eve were created in their adult state without the need of 20-25 years to grow into adults. Also, God created all the animals in their adult state, since infant animals cannot be born (come into existence) and survive without the causality of their adult “parents.”
...........................

--7. Fr. Robinson also seems to make contradictory statements. First of all, he says that it is metaphysically impossible for blind forces to produce intricate order, and that “the earth is a result of such complex causes that it is most likely the only habitable planet in the universe” (p. 410). But then he says: “but we grant that our planet could have formed by merely natural processes without a direct intervention by God or an intelligent agent. The theory has reputable, mathematical models behind it.”

--However, even Isaac Newton shows opposition to this opinion in his Principia Mathematica: “Though these bodies [planets] may indeed continue in their orbits by the mere laws of gravity, yet they could by no means have at first de-rived the regular position of the orbits themselves from those laws… This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.”

--Secondly, Fr. Robinson states that natural selection can-not produce macro evolution, i.e., one life form evolving into another (p. 456). But in another place he says: “Once God has created, for instance, animals with all five senses, like dolphins, then secondary causes—such as dolphins, natural selection, humans, and even good and bad angels—can modify dolphins to make other animals that are new to some degree” (p. 405); and he also says: “Once a biologist admits the existence of formal causes outside the mind, he can then propose a coherent naturalistic evolutionary process for one life form changing into another” (p. 449). These statements are contradictory and ambiguous."


 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: cassini on August 30, 2025, 06:21:43 AM
There was a time on Earth when most held our Earth as the unique, immovable, material and spiritual centre of the universe, with the sun, moon and stars deferring directly or indirectly to it in different ways every day, every month, every year, every 600 years. This is what they saw in the sky; what we all still see in the sky, but most can no longer assimilate or integrate this geocentric view despite it being the enduring perception of all. From the 17th to the 19th centuries, certain men embarked on a mission that would change how persons in both Church and State perceived this geocentric universe and man’s place in it, a comprehension that gave witness to the omnipotent God of the Bible and the Catholic faith. Their intent was to implement the beginning of the great reset, the hermetic principle ‘as above, so below,’ an ancient pagan belief that would first question and then remove this sacred understanding of the Holy Trinity, the Creator of all, from the minds of many, a blinding that precipitated secular and agnostic enlightenment on Earth causing churchmen to divinise the Big Bang theory of origins that demoted the supernatural Creation by God to natural causes.

Thus the supernatural temple built by the Holy Ghost in the name of the Spiritual Son of David, introduced in the opening sentence of the New Testament, was replaced by a rival secular allegorical temple built in the name of David’s natural son Solomon. What emerged was a revolution, so subtle in its methods, so devious and widespread in its application, so universal in its success, so thorough in its continuity in both Church and State, that it can be classed as the most ingenious ‘scientific,’ intellectual, metaphysical, doctrinal, and heretical deception in mankind’s history. When popes from 1757 to 1835 submitted to this Galilean reformation in Biblical understanding, Modernism entered the womb of the Catholic Church. It was this Galilean reformation that led to the rejection of the supernatural for a natural interpretation of Genesis, that in turn:

‘contributed, and is still contributing to the destruction of the church, to the ruin of the priesthood, to the abolition of the Sacrifice of the Mass and of the Sacraments, to the disappearance of religious life, to a naturalist and Teilhardian teaching in universities, seminaries and catechetics, a teaching derived from Liberalism and Protestantism many times condemned by the solemn Magisterium of the Church.’ .(Declaration of Fidelity: Archbishop Lefebvre, SSPX, 31 Nov. 1974.)

‘That the world began to exist is an object of faith, but not of demonstration or science. And it is useful to consider this, lest anyone, presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, should bring forward reasons that are not cogent, so as to give occasion to unbelievers to laugh, thinking that on such grounds we believe things that are of faith.’--- St. Thomas Aquinas, (Summa theologiae I.46.2)

Archbishop Lefebvre would have fired Fr Robinson for his naturalist and Teilhardian book.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 30, 2025, 08:19:54 AM
"..... From the 17th to the 19th centuries, certain men embarked on a mission that would change how persons in both Church and State perceived this geocentric universe and man’s place in it, a comprehension that gave witness to the omnipotent God of the Bible and the Catholic faith. Their intent was to implement the beginning of the great reset, the hermetic principle ‘as above, so below,’ an ancient pagan belief that would first question and then remove this sacred understanding of the Holy Trinity, the Creator of all, from the minds of many, ................ it can be classed as the most ingenious ‘scientific,’ intellectual, metaphysical, doctrinal, and heretical deception in mankind’s history. When popes from 1757 to 1835 submitted to this Galilean reformation in Biblical understanding, Modernism entered the womb of the Catholic Church. It was this Galilean reformation that led to the rejection of the supernatural for a natural interpretation of Genesis, that in turn: 'contributed, and is still contributing to the destruction of the church...'"

Excellent summary. And gives depth and historical background to the key point that the reviewer observed in regards to Fr. Robinson's book:
"--Thus, Fr. Robinson’s explanation of cosmic evolution tends to coincide with the Deist / Freemasonic idea that God should be seen as the Great Architect of the Universe, Who simply sets everything in motion for cosmic evolution after the Big Bang—by the “fine-tuning of the universe necessary for stars, galaxies and planets to form.”

Which tells us where this Modernism - "synthesis of all heresies" - has originated from.

Am I surprised? Upset, yes. Surprised, not so much. I firmly believe that when satan thought he had the Church hierarchy in the palm of his hand with generations of this nonsense, Archbishop Lefebrvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer emerged as out of nowhere as Soldiers of Christ.  Caught off guard, he quickly rallied his Fabian spies, and sent a number into the SSPX seminary to rise up through the ranks and plant this Modernist philosophy yet again. This is no doubt. We would be very naive to think that the Freemasons would leave the SSPX to work away doing all the good they have been doing.  Does this mean that SSPX is corrupt? No. No more than the Church. It means that there are (past and present) infiltrators - a corrupt element inside - setting the groundwork for such ideas to be accepted. And these infiltrators are in EVERY organization. I'm not saying that Fr. Robinson is one - he is a product of his pre-seminary education - but I am suggesting there is someone far more subtle, with authority to pass this book, who is either directly one of them, or has been groomed from old to think this way. I know of many SSPX priests who do not hold with theses views, including our own parish priest. But, yes, its a worry that such error is being allowed to free range by the SSPX authorities.

Cassini, you mentioned that Cathinfo was the only place that allowed you to air your book. By that I take it you have approached the SSPX and they have refused to engage. So the answer is that someone who has the means needs to publish your book and get it on the main-stream outlets to counteract against this poison. Will keep this in our family prayers.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Michelle on August 30, 2025, 08:40:05 AM
Excellent summary. And gives depth and historical background to the key point that the reviewer observed in regards to Fr. Robinson's book:
"--Thus, Fr. Robinson’s explanation of cosmic evolution tends to coincide with the Deist / Freemasonic idea that God should be seen as the Great Architect of the Universe, Who simply sets everything in motion for cosmic evolution after the Big Bang—by the “fine-tuning of the universe necessary for stars, galaxies and planets to form.”

Which tells us where this Modernism - "synthesis of all heresies" - has originated from.

Am I surprised? Upset, yes. Surprised, not so much. I firmly believe that when satan thought he had the Church hierarchy in the palm of his hand with generations of this nonsense, Archbishop Lefebrvre and Bishop de Castro Mayer emerged as out of nowhere as Soldiers of Christ.  Caught off guard, he quickly rallied his Fabian spies, and sent a number into the SSPX seminary to rise up through the ranks and plant this Modernist philosophy yet again. This is no doubt. We would be very naive to think that the Freemasons would leave the SSPX to work away doing all the good they have been doing.  Does this mean that SSPX is corrupt? No. No more than the Church. It means that there are (past and present) infiltrators - a corrupt element inside - setting the groundwork for such ideas to be accepted. And these infiltrators are in EVERY organization. I'm not saying that Fr. Robinson is one - he is a product of his pre-seminary education - but I am suggesting there is someone far more subtle, with authority to pass this book, who is either directly one of them, or has been groomed from old to think this way. I know of many SSPX priests who do not hold with theses views, including our own parish priest. But, yes, its a worry that such error is being allowed to free range by the SSPX authorities.

Cassini, you mentioned that Cathinfo was the only place that allowed you to air your book. By that I take it you have approached the SSPX and they have refused to engage. So the answer is that someone who has the means needs to publish your book and get it on the main-stream outlets to counteract against this poison. Will keep this in our family prayers.
I think Fr. Paul Robertson is in charge of the Angelus press.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 30, 2025, 09:35:22 AM
I think Fr. Paul Robertson is in charge of the Angelus press.
I see. And the district Superior since 2020 has been a Fr. John Fullerton. Who was the District Superior when Fr. Robinson's book was first published? I think it was 2018 if I remember correctly.

Meanwhile, the following link is a profile of the priest who published the book: 
https://www.shu.edu/profiles/paulhaffner.html
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: justG on August 30, 2025, 10:11:04 AM
A big issue with Fr Paul Robinson and his evolutionary views is not just the fact he was allowed to publish a book that one may read or not:  he teaches at the school.  Even though my daughter was already homeschooled at this point, she had friends in the school telling her that he was having a debate on the subject in his book.  Evidentially then he is pushing these ideas on the youth, much as Ladislas has mentioned regarding his experience with Jesuits (not all that long ago).  My own father was taught by Domincans in the 1950's that Scripture is just stories.  

Who is protecting these young minds at the school?  
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Boru on August 30, 2025, 10:18:01 AM
A big issue with Fr Paul Robinson and his evolutionary views is not just the fact he was allowed to publish a book that one may read or not:  he teaches at the school.  Even though my daughter was already homeschooled at this point, she had friends in the school telling her that he was having a debate on the subject in his book.  Evidentially then he is pushing these ideas on the youth, much as Ladislas has mentioned regarding his experience with Jesuits (not all that long ago).  My own father was taught by Domincans in the 1950's that Scripture is just stories. 

Who is protecting these young minds at the school? 
Seriously?!! Do you know what school he is teaching at?
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: justG on August 30, 2025, 10:20:25 AM
But I might suggest it is more insidious than just Fr. Paul Robinson's views:  his predecessor, Fr. Dennis McDonald, taught the Confirmation class (which my daughter in, roughly 2014) that obedience comes before faith.  I don't think my daughter challenged this in class (only being in 4th grade), but she did tell me about it.  
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: justG on August 30, 2025, 10:23:44 AM
He teaches at the school in Denver.  To be fair, my daughter's experience was several years ago now.  Perhaps he no longer teaches or perhaps he has been corrected by now.  We have been out of the school for quite some time and do not maintain much contact in this regard.  
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Kazimierz on August 30, 2025, 11:24:57 AM
Based on a Mass I watched from St Isidore in Watkins Co two weeks back (too ill to attend Mass at neochapel) there is a new priest who is now the principal of the neoS school for this September. Whether or not Fr Robinson, whom I have also heard preaching on the livestream of the Sunday Mass, is still teaching I know not. But he is still preaching and is the prior I believe of said parish. He might also be doing the online parish catechism. I have seen one of those as well. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: SoldierofCtK on August 30, 2025, 12:52:51 PM
Based on a Mass I watched from St Isidore in Watkins Co two weeks back (too ill to attend Mass at neochapel) there is a new priest who is now the principal of the neoS school for this September. Whether or not Fr Robinson, whom I have also heard preaching on the livestream of the Sunday Mass, is still teaching I know not. But he is still preaching and is the prior I believe of said parish. He might also be doing the online parish catechism. I have seen one of those as well.
If you're talking about the livestream from August 17, that's Fr. Joseph Haynos. He was just transferred from Syracuse, NY.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Kazimierz on August 30, 2025, 01:48:00 PM
If you're talking about the livestream from August 17, that's Fr. Joseph Haynos. He was just transferred from Syracuse, NY.
Indeed tis he 😀
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 30, 2025, 03:32:22 PM
A big issue with Fr Paul Robinson and his evolutionary views is not just the fact he was allowed to publish a book that one may read or not:  he teaches at the school.  Even though my daughter was already homeschooled at this point, she had friends in the school telling her that he was having a debate on the subject in his book.  Evidentially then he is pushing these ideas on the youth, much as Ladislas has mentioned regarding his experience with Jesuits (not all that long ago).  My own father was taught by Domincans in the 1950's that Scripture is just stories. 

Who is protecting these young minds at the school? 

Well, it's certaily not SSPX, who have endorsed the heresies of Reverend Robinson.
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Seraphina on August 30, 2025, 06:54:51 PM
Parents! If it’s not Fr. Paul Robinson teaching your children modernist theories in school, or someone and something even worse, it’s up to you to warn and arm your children with the truth and how to use it in such situations. Model it for them from an early age. Beginning simply at ages 2 or 3 is not too young. Hate the sin; love the sinner. If something wrong flies over your child’s head, leave it that way. Without being overly protective, keep your child innocent for as long as possible, but do not set up a “forbidden fruit” situation allowing your child to be tempted behind your back.  
An example of a child properly taught from my teaching career:- A third grade girl’s mother and aunt most unwisely and ignorantly took her along with an older cousin to a Lady Gaga and Madonna performance in NYC. Clips of the lewd, demonic show were on the third grader’s phone and it was passed around in the school bus on the way to school. A number of my first graders had seen it and told me about it as soon as arriving in the classroom. Most of the children were shocked and/or disgusted, eager to tell on the third grader who made fun of a few children who told her it was “dirty, nasty, immodest, disgusting,” and said they were “telling.” The girl mocked those who said such things and even threatened physical harm at lunch to several who made derogatory comments. 
Realizing it was a serious matter, I got the whole class busy on independent seat work, and summoned those students who’d been on that bus for a quick 1:1 private talk, emphasizing to some that they weren’t “in trouble.” The descriptions I received all matched, including the threats made by the third grader. I had to assure some of my students no such thing was going to happen. Some students told me they “saw it by accident” as it was passed around. 

With one girl, age six, I was very impressed. Sensing by othe kids’ reactions, she knew what was on the phone, that “Jesus did not like it,” she closed her eyes and refused to touch the phone despite a particular older boy calling her a baby. Her response to him, “My parents say if you see something, it stays in your brain forever. I’m not putting garbage in my brain.”  And she refused to open her eyes until the kids were off the bus and the driver told her to get off. 

She attended a conservative Black Baptist church from Haiti. I knew her church services were in French and that she spoke Haitian Creole at home. Not Catholic, but she taught me from her parents’ guidance. I have also to add she was always dressed femininely and modestly. The school had a trouser option for girls and female staff permitted when the thermometer fell below 32 F. or there was five or more inches of snow on the ground, also, for certain activities, either athletic or apt to get very dirty. The school handbook encouraged alternatives to pants for these occasions, but in reality, didn’t pay them attention. This girl’s wore only the jumper and later, skirt, at the stipulated length, and long enough culottes on her P.E. uniform. When her parents came for conferences and school events, they too, were dressed appropriately and modestly. 
Let’s pray that some day, a student’s simple statement of truth will penetrate Fr. Robinson’s mind and heart. “Out of the mouth of infants and suckling, Thou hast perfected praise.” St. Matthew 21:16 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: AnthonyPadua on August 30, 2025, 11:53:02 PM
. Hate the sin; love the sinner. 
I've never liked this slogan. Scripture says God hates and sinner and his sins alike.

Quote
But to God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike.
[Wisdom 14:9]

Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Godefroy on August 31, 2025, 02:23:18 AM
With one girl, age six, I was very impressed. Sensing by othe kids’ reactions, she knew what was on the phone, that “Jesus did not like it,” she closed her eyes and refused to touch the phone despite a particular older boy calling her a baby. Her response to him, “My parents say if you see something, it stays in your brain forever. I’m not putting garbage in my brain.”  And she refused to open her eyes until the kids were off the bus and the driver told her to get off.
How very true 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Seraphina on August 31, 2025, 03:47:04 AM
I've never liked this slogan. Scripture says God hates and sinner and his sins alike.
If God hated the sinner, He wouldn’t want him to repent. He wouldn’t have sacrificed His Son for sinners’ sake. 
Maybe the is a cliché, but there’s truth to it. No doubt God hates seeing the sinner in the act of sinning, but ultimately, He longs for his conversion.
Consider this Bible verse, 
11  (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=31&ch=33&l=11-#x)Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live.  [Ezechiel 33:11]
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: AnthonyPadua on August 31, 2025, 04:06:35 AM
If God hated the sinner, He wouldn’t want him to repent. He wouldn’t have sacrificed His Son for sinners’ sake.
Maybe the is a cliché, but there’s truth to it. No doubt God hates seeing the sinner in the act of sinning, but ultimately, He longs for his conversion.
Consider this Bible verse,
11 (https://www.drbo.org/cgi-bin/d?b=drb&bk=31&ch=33&l=11-#x)Say to them: As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way, and live.  [Ezechiel 33:11]
It's because they are certain kinds of people who use the quote to deny that people need to repent and change their ways. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Incredulous on August 31, 2025, 01:27:20 PM
It's because they are certain kinds of people who use the quote to deny that people need to repent and change their ways.

There’s the serpent’s seed… and Our Lady’s seed and there will be enmity between the two. 

Many are in denial of this theological precept and fall for the BLM “Be Kind” yard sign. 
Title: Re: Fr. Robinson: It’s All Valid, Trust Us!
Post by: Ladislaus on August 31, 2025, 02:30:50 PM
So, there's a balance to be had.

We most certainly love the sinner, but that love requires that we do what we can to convert them, rebuking the sin ... but, at the same time, we must rebuke the sin sometimes to prevent OTHERS from falling into it also.  If we "love the sinner" to the point of giving the impression that the sin is OK, not big deal, etc. ... we're not actually loving the sinner, but hating him, and we also hate those others to whom we may give the impression that it's fine.

That's the fail on Bergoglio's "Who am I to judge?"