I find it truly amazing that someone presenting themself as an intellectual would disregard, out-of-hand, a respected world-class post-doctoral scholar from Oxford yet glom onto this guy as a credible source (e.g. Alberto Rivera).
Nelson's Illustrated Guide to Religions By James A. Beverley:
"Chick Publications circulate the works of Alberto Rivera, who claimed to be a Jesuit priest and biship in the Catholic Church... Rivera's life story was the subject of devastating criticism by Gary Metz in a 1981 Cornerstone magazine [e.g. Protestant magazine] report. Rivera's former colleagues (not priests as he was not one himself) provided Metz with clear evidence of Rivera's lies and delusions about his claims of espionage for the pope."
"Rivera had a 'history of legal entanglements' including fraud, credit card theft, and writing bad checks. Warrants had been issued for his arrest in New Jersey and Florida, and he was wanted by the Spanish police for 'swindles and cheats'; while in the USA in 1967, he claimed to be collecting money for a Spanish college, which never received this money. The details of his claims changed: In 1964 he said he had left the Catholic Church in July 1952, but he later put the date at March 20, 1967; despite this, he was still promoting Catholicism in a newspaper interview of August that same year. Although supposedly placed in the sanitorium in 1965 and held there for three months, he gave the date of his release as September 1967, leaving a period of over a year unaccounted.
The document exhibited by Rivera to prove his status as a Catholic priest was fraudulently obtained and the Catholic Church denies his claims of having been a Jesuit priest or a bishop. He had only one sister in London; she was not called Maria, was not a nun, and did not live in a convent. In an employment form dated 1963 he claimed marriage to Carmen Lydia Torres, and the couple had two children in the USA when his own account had him a celibate priest in Spain.
Cornerstone also questioned Rivera's claim to various degrees, including three doctorates (Th.D., D.D., and Ph.D.), reporting that his known chronology did not allow enough time for him to have completed these degrees and that he had admitted to receiving them from a Colorado diploma mill."
Metz, Gary (1981). "The Alberto Story". Cornerstone 9 (53): 29–31. Archived from the original on 2005-12-02.
Cornerstone Magazine :: Alberto Rivera, Jack Chick, and a False Story