Chronology of the Election

They shall not partake of holy things, until a high priest shall arise for evidence and truth. Offertory for the Mass for the Election of a Pope.

H.H. Pope Michael replies: Some doubt the validity of Our election as Pope, but let Us ask one simple question:

Where were you in 1990?

We attempted to contact all Sedevacantists in the world and encourage them to hold the election, and when they failed, we proceeded.

All our reasoning is outlined in Our book, Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century? which We will make available to anyone for the cost of postage. ($4 in the US and $10 international)


David Bawden, known in religion as Pope Michael

In 1963, during the course of the Latrocinium of "Vatican II", Michel Colin, a French fraudster who went about deceiving people that he was a priest, and deceiving Catholics by pretending to celebrate the Mass, and who had been excommunicated for this by Pope Pius XII in 1954, when also he had been declared Vitandus, sought to capitalize on the disquiet of Catholics with the heretical shenanigans of "Vatican 2" by pretending to a Mystical Anointment as Pope, Clement XV, and founding the "Renovated Church of Christ", based first at Lyons, and then elsewhere and under other names, in France. 

Fr. Saenz-Arriaga, S.J., of Mexico, wrote Spanish language book, in August 1971, The New Montinian Church, published from Mexico, which intimated that the Modernist Antipope John Baptist Montini (Paul VI) was suspected of being the Antichrist.

Fr. Saenz-Arriaga, S.J., of Mexico, wrote Spanish language book, Sede-Vacante, 1973, which in part called for a Papal Election. An excerpted English translation was printed in the Veritas issue of December 1975 (C. & S. Research, P.O. Box 43191, Louisville, Kentucky 40253. [email protected]), including the call for a Papal Election.

In 1982 Teresa Stanfill Benns wrote an article, which appeared in Daniel Jones' Sangre de Christo News-Notes (Box 89, Westcliffe, Colorado 81252), calling for a Papal Election.

Benjamin F. Dryden wrote and circulated several papers calling for a Papal Election.

In the fall of 1987, Daniel Leonardi issued a call for a Papal Election, asking for others to take charge of the project.

H.H. Pope Michael Teresa Benns and David Bawden wrote series of articles to prove the necessity of a Papal Election. Part was printed in the Sedevacantist John Beauclair's Francinta Messenger (5207 Fairmont, Boise, Idaho 83706). The complete presentation was given to all who were known to be working towards such an election.

David Bawden made personal contact with Conclavists Thomas Hempel and the Frenchman, Andre Perlant who was then in the US, to discuss the Papal Election. Both Benns and Bawden wrote letters to people throughout the world, including Carlos Dissandro, Malachi Martin and also Anacleto Gonzalez Flores, of the Union Trento, the organization established by Bishop Carmona.

In late 1989 Teresa Benns and David Bawden wrote a book, Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century?, which was published in January 1990.  

In 1990, David Bawden, doing business as the "Christ the King Library," sold copies into many parts of the world.

Additionally, every Sedevacantist on the Traditionalist Catholic Directory, published by the late Sedevacantist Radko Jansky, received a copy.

At this time a heavy correspondence was kept up with anyone who showed any interest in a Papal Election, including the new-comer, Conclavist Ken Mock, who took a box of books to Europe in the spring of 1990.

Fr. Lopez-Gaston received a copy of the book, and was in correspondence with David Bawden at this time.

Gordon Bateman received a copy of the book, as did Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher, who thereafter ordered ten copies.

David Baden called Conclavist Dr. Walter Baisier of Belgium, to urge him to come personally to the election, but he sent a representative, Mrs. Andriessen, instead, who decided at the last minute not to participate.

In May of 1990, a summons was sent (in addition to many personal letters) calling for the actual election (See Election Update: Election Scheduled). Also in the first several months of 1990, several monthly Election Updates were published, completing the information in Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century?

Mrs. Benns and Mr. David Bawden jointly issued an informal summons for an assembly to elect the Pope in 1990, scheduling it for July 16, 1990 (See Election Update: Election Scheduled). The venue of the Election was set in a store owned by Mr. Kenneth Bawden at 301 Broadway, in Belvue, Kansas.

Benns and Bawden invited all orthodox Catholics to join (see above), but none excepting six did, and therefore, as required by Catholic law, these six proceeded with the election.

The Assembly elected David Bawden who took the name Pope Michael. In doing so, his chief inspiration was the incident that moved Pope Leo XIII to institute the Invocation of St. Michael the Archangel, and to add it to every Mass.


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