Most of what is said about Robert Sungenis's research is accurate. He argues that the Earth does not move, he took his doctorate from an institution without US accreditation, and he published his own books. None of that is in dispute here.
This page covers claims about his research, his qualifications and his public record, with his own published words on each.
He does, and he has argued it at length rather than in passing. It is the subject of the three-volume Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right, which began as a 700-page doctoral dissertation.
The argument is the thing worth examining, and it is available to examine. It stands or falls on the physics and the sources it cites, not on whether it sounds surprising.
The evidence he argues from, and the objections to itTrue. The PhD is from Calamus International University, which is authorised to issue degrees by the Republic of Vanuatu and has never held US accreditation. Anyone who says so is right.
What usually goes unmentioned is why. He was already enrolled in an accredited doctoral programme, asked to write his dissertation on geocentrism, and was refused. He left over the choice of subject rather than for want of a place.
The full record, including the degrees that are accreditedHe did, through Catholic Apologetics International. Challenges like it are easy to mock and easy to misread: it is an invitation to produce the proof, not a claim that money settles a question in physics.
He did. It was published in 2006 through his own imprint, and nobody should pretend a commercial press took it on.
The part that is usually dropped is the order of events. The text existed first as a doctoral dissertation, written over two and a half years under an advisor with a physics PhD, and was assessed by a faculty before any of it was printed. Self-published describes how it reached readers. It does not describe how it was written.
The books, with their contents and endorsementsHe was with Camping's organization from 1982 to 1984. In an exchange with James White he wrote:
“the truth is that I was with Camping (in his more sane days) for only two years (1982-1984). I left his organization due to his peculiar bible interpretations. ... It wasn't until Camping touted his prediction of the end of the world in 1994 that his true agenda came out, but I had long left his group 10 years earlier. In fact, I wrote ... a book, Shockwave 2000, against Camping's prediction, with a foreword written by the president of Dallas Theological Seminary, John F. Walvoord, a very prestigious name in prophetic circles.”
He described the book in another exchange with White:
Shockwave 2000!: The Harold Camping 1994 Debacle“I have published “Shockwave 2000” (New Leaf Press, 1994), which is a scholarly rebuttal to the varied predictions of Protestant evangelicals concerning the end of the world. The former president of Dallas Theological Seminary, John Walvoord, said it was one of the best book written on the subject, which prompted him to write the Foreword.”
The bishop was Kevin C. Rhoades, then of the Diocese of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Robert Sungenis has written of it:
“The truth is this: Rhoades threatened to remove the name “Catholic” if I didn’t capitulate to his views about the Jews, but he had never proven or even give evidence that my view was wrong. In other words, he tried to intimidate me to bend to his will without showing why his will was correct. And since the main issue between us concerned whether the doctrine of supersessionism was correct, the bishop had an obligation to show that his view (or that of Fr. King who spoke for the bishop) was correct and mine was wrong. He never did.”
“My bishop at that time (2007), Kevin C. Rhoades, was himself promoting the heresy in the Harrisburg, PA diocese, as was his mentor and the previous bishop, Cardinal William Keeler, who wrote the infamous 1992 paper saying that we should no longer preach the Gospel to the Jews because their salvation is dependent on their own covenant with God. Both Keeler and Rhoades tried to silence me, but both failed. I was about to sue Rhoades for his heavy-handedness until the Vatican moved him to South Bend, Indiana, where he now resides.”
“Since Catholic doctrine from the Fathers to the present has taught that the Mosaic covenant was revoked and replaced by the New Covenant in Christ, I was not willing to capitulate to the wishes of the Harrisburg diocese and thus we have been at odds ever since. At one point, Fr. King issued an email to all the clerics and deacons in the Harrisburg diocese, which said: “Please be aware that this refers to a longstanding theological conversation between Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades as bishop of the diocese of Harrisburg, and Dr. Robert Sungenis, one of his subjects. Dr. Sungenis presents himself as a Catholic apologist. His personal opinions regarding the Jewish people and covenant, including conspiracy theories as well as supercession [sic] of the Old Testament Covenant, stand apart from (and in discord with) authentic Catholic teaching on these subjects.””
Every item above is a claim about the man rather than about the argument. They are worth getting right, which is why they are answered here plainly, including where they are right.
None of them decides whether the case in the books is sound. That is decided by reading it and following the citations to their sources, which is a test no qualification passes or fails on anyone's behalf.