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# Fake Priest
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/3481/
- Published: 2005-12-30T19:48:10.000Z
- Updated: 2005-12-30T19:48:10.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Religion, #wpChunk

[A canon lawyer breaks down the implications for parishioners who had a fake priest as their pastor for several months](http://www.canonlaw.info/blog.html?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Interesting stuff. Excerpt:

> \[W\]hat of those Catholics who attended "services" or received what they thought were sacraments from this man? As one person put it, "does his Mass satisfy the Sunday obligation?"

> To answer the question as posed, No, for such an action was not a Mass and thus cannot satisfy the Sunday obligation. Nevertheless, anyone who attends a ceremony honestly believing it was Mass, only to find out later that the event was a fake, is excused the obligation for that day. Moreover, one who reverently received a host "consecrated" by such a man commits no idolatry, for there was no intention to worship something known not to be Jesus, the Son of God.

> As for the other sacraments, his baptisms would almost certainly be valid, for one need not be in Holy Orders to perform a baptism (CCC 1256). Confirmation, on the other hand, would be invalid (1983 CIC 882) and, because it is a "character-imprinting" sacrament that can only be administered by a priest (1983 CIC 845 § 1), it would have to be administered anew. Confessions, too, though not character-imprinting, would also be invalid (1983 CIC 965) . . .