Introduction and Documentation of Fr. Marshall Roberts

December 15, 2017

Dear Mr. John Pfeiffer,

Your statement that Fr. Roberts is a “sodomy-predator-priest” is wholly false, unsubstantiated and most grave calumny. According to the Law of the Old Testament you should receive the same punishment as you’re falsely accused victim. “And they rose up against the two elders —for Daniel had convicted them of False Witness by their own mouth—and they did to them as they had maliciously dealt against their neighbor, to fulfill the law of Moses : and they put them to death, and innocent blood was saved in that day.” (Daniel 13:61-62)

I have known Fr. Roberts for 29 years, was a classmate of his and been in contact during the periods in question. I have investigated his case on 4 different occasions, using all means available to me at the times in question. I have a lead investigator investigating his case (again) at this time. Whatever first hand, immediate testimonies of real sin or crime you have, put them forward immediately. The testimonies must present real hard evidence of true Crime or Public Sin. Present it to Pablo at marcosandolini333@yahoo.com

As a priest of God and Father of your soul I am obliged before God to inform you and the public that you are obliged to retract all imprecise and false allegations as well as the insinuations, innuendos, vagueries presented in your criminal letter which you presented as a Lawyer from “Pfeiffer and Associates” thus giving to the public a sense of greater authority.

Here follows a small sampling of the egregious falsehoods and errors in your letter:

Example 1: “I talked with the then vice-rector of the seminary, Patrick Perez, who expelled him.” And “the SSPX had the poor judgment to later ordain him (and also other sodomite predators around the same time) and Roberts eventually co-founded the Society of St. John with two other former-SSPX-predator priests.”

1. Fr. Roberts left Gricigliano in January 1993. Rev. Mr. Patrick Perez was a deacon seminarian at the time. He was ordained a priest later in 1993 and by 1994 or 95 was also “sent home” by Mgr. Wach the Superior General of the Institute of Christ the King. Is it customary for seminarians to 1st become vice-rector of seminary in which dwell 5 priests one of whom was the Superior General of the Order and another the Rector of the Seminary? Do you know how a seminarian deacon could expell a fellow seminarian overuling the authority of the Rector and Superior General? In 1993 I was a seminarian as well in Winona, given permission by my superiors to keep in communication with Fr. Roberts to try to win him back to the SSPX. Did Fr. Perez really tell you that he expelled Fr. Roberts? or did you have a lapse of memory?

- I spoke with Seminarian Roberts by phone and then saw him face to face after he was “sent home” still in cassock as seminarian. He was indeed “sent home” but not expelled. Fr. Roberts was first to return to Gricigliano then to Gabon instead, still as an Institute seminarian, by command of Mgr. Wach. I had long arguments with Fr. Roberts about the excommunications of 88, the Church in crisis, his situation, etc. I argued against his continuing on as an Indult seminarian. He finally agreed that the SSPX was indeed right and after meeting for further investigation with Fr. Peter Scott (USA District Superior at the time) he spent one year in Kansas City and thence to Winona. I told you these things by telephone 5 years ago. You must have had a lapse of memory.

2. - Who were the “Sodomite-Predator” priests ordained by SSPX in the 1990’s and what proof have you of their predatory behavior? Who were the victims? Provide, names, court cases, convictions in SSPX chapels they served. If you knew about “Sodomite-Predator” behavior at the time, then provide your complaints and testimonies given to SSPX superiors and legal authorities in such matters of grave crime and misconduct. If you did not file complaints at that time please provide the excuse for your criminal negligence. Do you even know the names of the priests and their Chapel assignments, much less their grave misdemeanors? I was ordained an SSPX priest in the 1990s and functioned in the entire ‘90s in SSPX USA apostolate, with good contact with almost all USA priests at the time and heard nothing of SSPX Predator priests at the time.

3- You quote Randy Engel as a source, who is herself enveloped in much controversy over many allegations made in her over 1000 page book. Her chapter on Society of St. John is full of evil assumptions and accusations without proof. For example she claims that young men having alcohol and tobacco is proof of “homosexual grooming.” Maybe that’s why they serve Root Beer and e-cigarettes at bars where so-called straight couples often meet? She quotes multiple boys who admitted to irregular sleeping arrangements with Fr. Urrutigoity and yet denied any homosexual conduct as proof of homosexual conduct. Their denial of wrong-doing of one priest she takes as proof of a homosexual ring involving all members of the order to which he belonged? This is absurd. She mentions multiple times in her condemnatory report on SSJ that the police found insufficient evidence, the diocese found insufficient evidence. . . Homosexuality was not the reason for suppression of SSJ etc. Her work is self condemnatory. Anyone with a grammar school education should have been able to see through it.

4. - Concerning Fr. Roberts in her book she points out that he had an irregular sleeping arrangement at some point on SSJ property in Shoholo, proving he was complicit by at least silence with almost daily homosexuality in Scranton which the students, priests, police etc. claimed didn’t happen anyway, Google map shot included. You wrote a letter to me once telling me that you believed in the flat earth, perhaps on that map you can show the identity of these two locations.

5. You spoke falsely concerning your private conversation with Fr. Hewko which you made public for him as a public statement on his behalf, both contrary to what he said and to his desires. Did you secretly get yourself hired as his lawyer also against his will, since you signed your letter now flying through cyberspace with your “Pfeiffer and Associates” signature, etc.

6. There are too many other points in your letter and accusations contrary to what is right and just to be enumerated here any further. See attached some documents from the Diocese, police clearances etc.

Thank you for graciously including a link to one of my sermons in your email so that the catechetical truth in it can be spread abroad for the edification of souls. This at least was thoughtful of you.

Finally, concerning your three demands to ensure that:

“1. Roberts is immediately expelled; 2. Fr. Pfeiffer apologizes for that sermon and commits to never speaking that way again and; 3) that Fr. Pfeiffer’s sermon and all of Robert’s sermons in Boston be permanently pulled off the internet.” An initial response: 1.) There is no layman named Roberts at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel to expel. The superior here does not obey the commands of laymen such as yourself, since this is against Divine Law. 2.) No, and 3) please address your demand to the owner of the websites in which they are found, and to the international legal body that controls the worldwide web throughout the world. As you know already, I don’t have, own or control any website at all.

To repeat what was stated above, as a priest of God and father of your soul, I am obliged before God to inform you and the public that you are obliged to retract all imprecise and false allegations as well as the insinuations, innuendos, and vagueries presented in your criminal letter which you presented as a Lawyer from “Pfeiffer and Associates” thus giving to the public a sense of greater Authority and causing most grave scandal and harm to souls.

Before God, in order save your soul from eternal peril you are obliged to retract publicly, as well as privately completely and without any excuse before you go to Judgement in front of the Divine Tribunal. You must also make reparation and penance for those souls unknown to you but known to the Good God who may because of your most pernicious bringing forward these well worn lies yet again, may abstain from, leave or not approach the priests of God for the life giving Sacraments and Faith of all times. “Woe to him through whom scandals come It were better for him, that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea,.” (Luke 17:2) The sea in question is made of fire and burns forever,

In Christ,

Fr. Joseph Pfeiffer


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