Sedevacantism
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Sedevacantism is the belief that the papal office is currently vacant, that any person claiming to fill such office was not validly elected, and that the Roman Catholic Church is currently without a sitting Pope. More specifically, it refers to the traditionalist Catholic belief that all popes since Paul VI or John XXIII are illegitimate. Freemason infiltrators even elected John XXIII who was sympathetic to socialism/communism and was progressive. [1] Objections typically center around reforms in the Roman Catholic Church instituted after the Second Vatican Council. The Roman Catholic Church is tainted with communism, Freemasonry and Antichrist's Jewish Kabbalah. [2]
"Proofs" that Francis and his immediate predecessors are antipopes range from the silly (recent popes have embraced the heresy of Modernism, and no heretic can be a true pope) to the very silly (you can't be a real pope if you don't wear the papal tiara). [3][4]
Sedevacantists typically believe that the Second Vatican Council was illegitimate due to its inclusion of ecumenism and its substitution of the Novus Ordo Mass (typically said in modern languages) for the Mass established at the Council of Trent (said in Ecclesiastical Latin). [5]
While "Modernism" or not wearing a stupid hat are grounds for rejecting the modern line of popes in the Sedevacantist camp, hosting orgies[6] or putting a dead pope on trial for political reasons[7] are not.
Among the more famous followers of sedevacantism is Hutton Gibson, father of celebrated star director and critically acclaimed actor Mel Gibson.[8]
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[edit] Beliefs
Typically, sedevacantists believe the following:
- The last clearly orthodox Pope was Pius XII. Some sedevacantists claim that John XXIII, who convened Vatican II, was a modernist heretic and therefore not really Pope, as no heretic could become a true Pope. Others accept John XXIII as a Pope, but accuse Paul VI of heresy. Alternatively, he showed his true nature and fulfilled some bullshit "prophecy" when he laid his papal tiara on the altar of St. Peter's Basilica.[3]
- Since the Second Vatican Council, the accepted hierarchy of the Catholic Church (which they refer to as the Conciliar Church) has promoted "indifferentism" (the idea that there are mutliple, mutually acceptable paths to salvation). Sedevacantists adhere to the doctrine of extra ecclesiam nulla salus: outside the Catholic Church there can be no salvation. In practice, this means they tend to include any calls by the Catholic hierarchy for religious toleration as "indifferentism."[9]
- After the Council of Trent, the Tridentine Mass became the only acceptable form of the Mass in the Latin Church for all time and could never be changed. Thus, Vatican II's changes to the Mass simply proved that it was in error, illegitimate, and should be ignored.
- Various nutty conspiracy theories about the Third Secret of Fatima and the "murder" of Pope John Paul I.[10]
[edit] Conclavism
Closely related to (and funnier than) sedevacantism is conclavism. Basically, conclavists are sedevacantists who have elected their own popes. There are several competitors for the claim to be the "real pope," but one of the most noted conclavist "antipopes" is David Bawden of Belvue, Kansas (aka Pope Michael).[11]
[edit] See also
- Traditionalist Catholicism This includes sedevacantists and other traditionalists who remain within the Church.
- Old Catholic Church This denomination is now more liberal than the standard Church in Rome.
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ Contribution to a Canonization
- ↑ What Has Happened to the Catholic Church
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Anti-Pope Paul VI {or perhaps IV} Breaking the Sacred Papal Tiara (Fulfills the Prophecy of Premol). retrieved 2012-04-23.
- ↑ The Papal tiara which symbolizes the Papacy has been disposed off by King Paul VI.
- ↑ Exposing the Modernist Vatican II Church
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banquet_of_Chestnuts
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_synod
- ↑ /http://www.dallasobserver.com/2003-07-31/news/is-the-pope-catholic/
- ↑ See these nutjobs, for example.
- ↑ Brother Francis of Mary of the Angels of the Little Brothers of the Sacred Heart (trans. Timothy Peter Johnson). John Paul I: The Pope of the Secret (The Whole Truth About Fatima, v. 4) (Catholic Counter-Reformation in the XXth Century: [Year Unknown]).
- ↑ A documentary has been made about him, and he has been interviewed on Dutch Catholic television. Pope Michael I of Kansas