Papal Claimants

by Prakash Mascarenhas

Psuedo-Mysticalism

The idea that the normal means of electing the pope has been lost and that the only means of obtaining a pope is by Divine Intervention.

This is one of the more popular ideas.

However It is opposed to the Catholic Faith.

The Faith is founded on the Deposit of Public Divine Revelation, which must be believed by all that they may be saved, and which cannot be amended: added to or subtracted from.

To postulate a Divine Intervention of any kind, it is necessary to credit the �Revelation� that Mr. or Fr. or Bishop X is now constituted the Pope, as Public Divine Revelation, so that all may credit or believe it. That is, one must necessarily affirm that Public Divine Revelation has been amended: Added to. This is heresy.

Thus Psuedo-Mysticalism is necessarily a heresy.

This heresy is most famously plugged by the Saint Francis Newsletter and its editor, Robert F. Hess. See here 'Leter to Robert Hess'

Some of the more famous Psuedo-Mysticalist claimants are:

  1. Pope Gregory XIV or Clemente Dominguez y Gomez, the heresiarch of the Palmarian sect. The Palmarians not only profess the heresy of psuedo-Mysticalism, but also the heresies that the Papal seat is now no longer Rome (but Palmar de Troya) and that the name of the Church is no longer the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic and Roman Church but the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Palmarian Church.
  2. Pope Adrian VII or Francis Schuckhardt: The original founder of the CMRI organisation, presently led by the Bishop Mark Pivarunas. He received consecration as a bishop from a follower who had been originally an �Old Catholic" bishop, (these sects are descended from a commingling of the Jansenist and Dolingerite heretics) and, it is reputed, became a homosexual and later proclaimed himself pope as a result, he claims, of an apparition. He was expelled, and now lives with a very small and unknown following somewhere in the western United States.
  3. Pope Peter II or Maurice Archieri, another psuedo-Mystically claimant living in Paris, France. There are two other psuedo-Mysticalist claimants with the same title of Pope Peter II: Aime Baudet in Brussels, and a shadowy Julius Tischler, a German, about whom there is practically no information.
  4. Pope Peter-Athanasius II (sic), variously described as living in Brussels, Belgium and in Canada. There is no explanation for his name: there were no recognised pope with the name Peter-Athanasius I.
  5. Pope Valerian or Valeriano Vestini, an Italian. Not much is known about him.
  6. Pope Leo XIV in Anjouleme, France.
  7. Pope Emmanuel, no information available.

Conclavism:

The idea, reportedly of a Mr. Ken. Mock, of Spokane, Washington State, the U.S.A., to convene a lay assembly as a �Conclave� of electors to elect the pope. From his group, three factions split off and elected the following persons:

  1. David Bawden as Pope Michael I in 1990,
  2. Victor von Pentz as Pope Linus II in 1994, and
  3. Lucian Pulvermacher as Pope Pius XIII in 1998.
The Conclave as an apparatus to elect the pope following the death, resignation or abdication of the previous pope, is Church legislation, and the only electors are the Cardinals. The procedure is that the Cardinals are isolated and put under diminishing rations until they elect the new pope. This drastic legislation was enacted because on one occasion, following the death of a pope, the Cardinals partied rather than get down to the task of electing the next pope. The interregnum, at that time lasted over two and a half years.

Obviously, the Conclave legislation cannot apply to an assembly of extraordinary electors of the pope. That is however, not a very important point.

An Election, whether by an Acephalous Ecumenical Council, a la Constance, or by a lay assembly, as attempted by the three factions above: Bawdenites, Pentzites and Pulvermacherites, is the only legitimate means of obtaining a pope, and is in accordance with Catholic precedents, values and principles.

Notes

The above list is not exhaustive, nor is it meant to be. Many self-styled 'popes' have been disregarded, but no known 'elected' claimant is excluded. Any correction of the facts as presented above is welcome.

My definitive site for Papal issues and for information on the endeavour to supply the Church with a true pope or find whether this has already been done is : EOPERU: Extra-Ordinary Papal Election Round-Up

Other Claimants:

There are other claimants:

1. The Polish actor Charles Voltiva, (Karol Wojtyla, in Polish,) the most famous, under the name of 'Pope John-Paul 2'. An antipope in the physical possession of the Vatican, he is a Modernist heretic, and the heresiarch of the sect founded by the antipopes Roncalli (John XXIII), Montini (Paul VI) and their Anti-Council, the "Vatican-II" held in 1962 - 1965.

2. John-Gregory XVII, (sic) or Gaston Tremblay. He is the self-styled successor of another antipope, Michael Colin or Clement XV, the founder of the "Reformed Church of Christ" at Lyons. Tremblay�s sect is a faction, the "Magnificat," based in Saint Jovite, Quebec, Canada. There is reputedly another antipope, a mainstream rival to Tremblay in Colin�s sect, but nothing is known about him. He and his sect offer no explanation for the missing 'Popes John-Gregories, 1 to 16,' who, needless to add, never existed!
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