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{{Short description|20th and 21st-century schismatic Catholic prelate}}
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| name = Lucian Pulvermacher
| title = Pope Pius XIII
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| church = True Catholic Church
| birth_name = Earl Pulvermacher
| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|4|20|df=y}}
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| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|11|30|1918|4|20|df=y}}
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| term_start = 24 October 1998<ref name="Perrin2013"/>
| term_end = 30 November 2009
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'''Lucian Pulvermacher''' (born '''Earl Pulvermacher''', 20 April 1918 – 30 November 2009) was a ] ]atic ] priest and a modern-day ]. He was the head of the '''True Catholic Church''', a small ] group that elected him '''Pope Pius XIII'''<ref name="Perrin2013">{{cite journal|last1=Perrin|first1=Luc|year=2013|title=La question de l'autorité dans le traditionalisme catholique|journal=Revue des Sciences Religieuses|language=fr|issue=87/1|pages=61–76|doi=10.4000/rsr.1306|issn=0035-2217|quote=Quelques sédévacantistes ont poussé leur logique jusqu’à devenir des antipapes, tel le P. Lucian Pulvermacher ofm cap (1918-2009), entré en dissidence en 1976 d’abord au côté de la F.S.SP. X avant d’en être éloigné et de se faire élire par un micro-conclave en 1998 en tant que Pie XIII.|doi-access=}}</ref><ref name="Laycock2014">{{cite book|author=Joseph P. Laycock|title=The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dmvDBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA111|date=3 November 2014|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-937967-5|page=111|quote=Father Lucian Pulvermacher of Springdale, Montana, argued that Paul VI's predecessor, John XXIII, had defected to Freemasonry during a secret ceremony held in Turkey in 1935. On October 24, 1994, Pulvermacher was "elected" pope by a conclave consisting primarily of his own family and held in rural Montana.}}</ref><ref name="HodappKannon2011">{{cite book|author1=Christopher Hodapp|author2=Alice Von Kannon|title=Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4htx62wIXIgC&pg=PA318|date=4 February 2011|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-118-05202-0|page=318|quote=Father Lucian Pulvermacher, known to his flock as Pope Pius XIII... Pulvermacher was elected pope on October 24, 1994, in a conclave held in rural Montana.}}</ref> in ] in October 1998. At the time of his death, he lived in ], United States.


==Life and career==
'''Father Lucian Pulvermacher''', ] (born ], ]) was elected as the 262nd pope of the ] on ] and took the name '''Pope Pius XIII'''. The "true Catholic Church" is a group of traditional Catholics subject to Pope Pius XIII. These Catholics reject the Novus Ordo and Benedict XVI as being non-Catholic As a result he is an Antipope.
===Early life===
Born on April 20, 1918, in ], ], near ], Earl Pulvermacher was one of nine children of a farm family.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truecatholic.us/pope/ |title=His Holiness Pope Pius XIII |publisher=truecatholic.us |access-date=18 August 2010 |url-status=unfit |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120927000319/http://www.truecatholic.us/pope/ |archive-date=September 27, 2012 }}</ref> His three brothers (Robert, Omer, and Gerald) also became priests in the Capuchin Order.<ref>, trueCarpentry.org; accessed August 19, 2021.</ref>
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===Capuchin friar===
==Early life and early ministry==
In 1942, at the age of 24, he joined the ], taking the religious name ''Lucian.'' He was subsequently ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1946.<ref>''The Messenger'', vol. 9, no. 3 (March 1946)</ref> At first he was posted to a parish in ], but in 1948 he was sent to the ] of Japan.<ref></ref><ref name="lundberg">{{cite web
|author=Magnus Lundberg
|url=https://magnuslundberg.net/2016/05/15/modern-alternative-popes-18-pius-xiii/
|title=Modern Alternative Popes: Pius XIII
|access-date=23 August 2018
|date=15 May 2016
}}</ref> He spent the greater part of his career as a Capuchin (from 1948 to 1970) in the Ryukyu Islands, including ]. In 1970, he was transferred from Japan to ] in ], where he continued his missionary work until his disillusionment with the changes that followed the ] of 1962–1965.<ref name="autogenerated2">(letter of Pulvermacher quoted on German ] website)</ref>


===Traditionalist ministry===
Earl Pulvermacher was born in 1918. He entered the ] Order in 1942 (where he was given a religious name of ''Lucian'') and was ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1946. After an initial period as a priest in ] he served as a missionary priest in ] and later ]. From 1970 to 1976 he served as a missionary in ]. Having rejected the Novus Ordo religion coming from Vatican II, he then left Australia in 1976 and associated with some traditionalist Catholic organizations that had opposed ].
In January 1976 he left the Capuchin Order and returned to the United States to join forces with traditionalist priest Conrad Altenbach in ]. "I was without money," he later remembered, "without a home or anything. The few things I brought along with me I could carry in two bags." He left what he called "the ], bogus Council ] Church" and began to collaborate with the ], which rejected Vatican II, until he distanced himself from them as he adopted more extreme ] views. He later wrote that he had spent eight months "with the general Latin Mass traditionalists until I saw there was no unity. Hence, I am alone on the job here in the States since August 1976."<ref name="Perrin2013"/><ref name="lundberg"/><ref name="autogenerated2"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/pope/biography.htm |title=Biography on True Catholic website |access-date=2018-08-23 }}</ref>


From 1976 on, Pulvermacher lived with his parents in ], celebrating Mass in the traditional rite in private chapels, until 1992, when he moved his ministry to ]. By 1995 he had adopted ] views. In 1998 he moved to ], invited to say Mass in a chapel there.<ref name="lundberg"/>
==Post Vatican II==


In October 1998 a group of ] lay Catholics met in Kalispell, constituting a conclave for a papal election. They elected him, and he adopted the title of "Pope Pius XIII".<ref name="Perrin2013"/><ref name="spect">{{cite web
After leaving Australia, Fr. Lucian was affiliated for a short time with the ]. His brother, Fr. Carl Pulvermacher, joined the ] shortly after Fr. Lucian left them and remains affiliated to this day. After leaving the Society, Fr. Lucian established a circuit of missionary visits to traditional Catholics throughout the United States.
|url=https://spectator.org/33846_we-have-american-pope/
|publisher=The American Spectator
|date=February 23, 2013
|access-date=20 August 2018
|author=Thomas J. Craughwell
|title=We Have An American Pope!
}}</ref> From Montana he issued statements, appointed advisors as cardinals, and performed ordination rites. After 2005, he made no more public statements as his health declined.<ref name="lundberg"/>


Pulvermacher died on November 30, 2009.<ref name=death>{{cite news|work=Stumbling After Francis|title=Death of A Pope|url=http://vocationstory.blogspot.com/2009/12/death-of-pope.html}}</ref><ref name=death2>{{cite news|work=A Minor Friar|title=RIP: Pius XIII|url=http://friarminor.blogspot.com/2009/12/rip-pius-xiii.html}}</ref>
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==Holy Orders==
After his departure from the Novus Ordo circa 1976, Fr. Lucian held that ] had been a ], and thus his election as pope in 1958 had been invalid, and that all of John XXIII's acts, such as the calling of ] were also invalid. Fr. Lucian holds that the successors of John XXIII, namely ], ] and ] and currently ], also are non-popes as they followed in the footsteps of John XXIII with their adherence to the false Novus Ordo religion of Vatican II. Thus, the ] was vacant from the death of ] in 1958 until October 24, 1998, with the conclave which elected him as the Vicar of Christ.
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Pulvermacher claimed that by becoming Pope, he would become able to confer the ] despite not actually being consecrated a bishop before.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Orders & Consecration by Pope|url=http://www.truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/pope/ordersbypope.htm|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.truecarpentry.org}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2021}}<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Minister of Holy Orders|url=http://www.truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/pope/ministerholyorders.htm|access-date=2021-01-24|website=www.truecarpentry.org}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2021}} He then ordained ] on June 13, 1999<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ordination of Fr. Gordon Bateman|url=http://www.truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/pope/gb-ordination.htm|access-date=2021-01-23|website=www.truecarpentry.org}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2021}} and eventually consecrated him a bishop on June 20, 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Episcopal Consecration of + Gordon Cardinal Bateman|url=http://www.truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/pope/gb-bishop.htm|access-date=2021-01-23|website=www.truecarpentry.org}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2021}} After this, Bateman consecrated Pulvermacher on July 4, 1999.<ref>{{Cite web|title=FAQs about the papacy of Pope Pius XIII|url=http://www.truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/pope/faq.htm#consecrate|access-date=2021-01-23|website=www.truecarpentry.org}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=January 2021}} Although Pulvermacher and Bateman claimed to be bishops, no other religion with ] has recognized them as such.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}


==See also==
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*] for a more general discussion of this phenomenon
*] and ] for other ] claimants to the papacy
*Popes ], ], ], ] and ], whose papal reigns "Pope Pius XIII" claimed to be illicit and invalid.


==References==
In 1998, the remmant Catholic Church, both lay and clerical, held a conclave using a telephone vote along with elaborate security and authentication methods. At the Conclave of 1998, Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher was elected as the 262nd pope of the Roman Catholic Church and took the name Pius XIII. The new pope then established his College of Cardinals to provide an ecclesiastical mechanism for the election of his successors.
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Though he had adherents, his support is mainly limited to only about 100 families worldwide, most of which are in the United States. Only 28 attended his episcopal ordination in Montana, about a year after his election to the papacy.

==+ Gordon Cardinal Bateman==
+ Gordon Cardinal Bateman was a married ]n layman who belonged to Pius XIII's circle of friends. Pius XIII raised Bateman to the priesthood and then to the episcopacy. Thereafter, Bateman consecrated Pope Pius XIII to the episcopacy. As a result, Bateman's marriage broke up, and Bateman blaims Pope Pius XIII for this, not considering any other possible reasons for the breakup. The mutual consecrations of Pius XIII and Cardinal Bateman were done using the plenary powers of the papacy. Such consecrations were justified using the precedent set in Church history, where Pope Pius XII during his reign in the 1950s sent priests into a Communist country where some 150 to 250 Catholic priests and a number of bishops were ordained clandestinely during 40 years of Communist rule under special powers granted by Pope Pius XII. (Ref: National Catholic Reporter, February 25, 2000).

Subsequently, Bateman fell away from Pius XIII after he discovered a curious fact: That Fr. Lucian had practiced "divining" with a pendulum. Pulvermacher does not deny this, but on the contrary has defended this as a God-given natural science.

Bateman's relatives, at the present, have been attempting to bring the various Sedevacantist factions together into unity under "Pope Michael" (the aforementioned David Bawden). This is the "St. Gabriel's Group" (see ]). Bateman's whereabouts and activities from the time he left Pope Pius XIII in 2001 remain a mystery.

==Family==

Pulvermacher's family consisted of mother and father and 9 children, the 4 Pulvermacher brothers all became Capuchin priests. His mother, who died in 1999, and one of his still-living sisters were the only members of his family who remained in the Catholic Church and recognized him as the true pope. His only living brother, Fr. Carl Pulvermacher, in failing health, remains in the ] which holds Benedict XVI to be the pope.

==Reports of Death==
The internet has been spreading reports that Pope Pius XIII died on January 11, 2006. Such reports are false, as Pope Pius XIII is presently known to be alive and well and living in the USA. Like Mark Twain, Pope Pius XIII can say "The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated!"

==See also==
* ] for a more general discussion of this particular post-Vatican II phenomenon
* ], ] and ] for other primary Sedevacantist claimants to the Papacy
* ] and ]


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Latest revision as of 13:13, 25 September 2024

20th and 21st-century schismatic Catholic prelate
Antipope
Lucian Pulvermacher
Pope Pius XIII
ChurchTrue Catholic Church
Papacy began24 October 1998
Papacy ended30 November 2009
Opposed to
Personal details
BornEarl Pulvermacher
(1918-04-20)20 April 1918
Rock, Wisconsin, United States
Died30 November 2009(2009-11-30) (aged 91)
Springdale, Stevens County, Washington, United States

Lucian Pulvermacher (born Earl Pulvermacher, 20 April 1918 – 30 November 2009) was a traditionalist schismatic Roman Catholic priest and a modern-day antipope. He was the head of the True Catholic Church, a small conclavist group that elected him Pope Pius XIII in Montana in October 1998. At the time of his death, he lived in Springdale, Washington, United States.

Life and career

Early life

Born on April 20, 1918, in Rock, Wisconsin, near Marshfield, Earl Pulvermacher was one of nine children of a farm family. His three brothers (Robert, Omer, and Gerald) also became priests in the Capuchin Order.

Capuchin friar

In 1942, at the age of 24, he joined the Capuchin Order, taking the religious name Lucian. He was subsequently ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1946. At first he was posted to a parish in Milwaukee, but in 1948 he was sent to the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. He spent the greater part of his career as a Capuchin (from 1948 to 1970) in the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa. In 1970, he was transferred from Japan to Queensland in Australia, where he continued his missionary work until his disillusionment with the changes that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965.

Traditionalist ministry

In January 1976 he left the Capuchin Order and returned to the United States to join forces with traditionalist priest Conrad Altenbach in Milwaukee. "I was without money," he later remembered, "without a home or anything. The few things I brought along with me I could carry in two bags." He left what he called "the Novus Ordo, bogus Council Vatican II Church" and began to collaborate with the Society of Saint Pius X, which rejected Vatican II, until he distanced himself from them as he adopted more extreme sedevacantist views. He later wrote that he had spent eight months "with the general Latin Mass traditionalists until I saw there was no unity. Hence, I am alone on the job here in the States since August 1976."

From 1976 on, Pulvermacher lived with his parents in Pittsville, Wisconsin, celebrating Mass in the traditional rite in private chapels, until 1992, when he moved his ministry to Antigo, Wisconsin. By 1995 he had adopted conclavist views. In 1998 he moved to Kalispell, Montana, invited to say Mass in a chapel there.

In October 1998 a group of sedevacantist lay Catholics met in Kalispell, constituting a conclave for a papal election. They elected him, and he adopted the title of "Pope Pius XIII". From Montana he issued statements, appointed advisors as cardinals, and performed ordination rites. After 2005, he made no more public statements as his health declined.

Pulvermacher died on November 30, 2009.

Holy Orders

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Pulvermacher claimed that by becoming Pope, he would become able to confer the Sacrament of Holy Orders despite not actually being consecrated a bishop before. He then ordained Gordon Bateman on June 13, 1999 and eventually consecrated him a bishop on June 20, 1999. After this, Bateman consecrated Pulvermacher on July 4, 1999. Although Pulvermacher and Bateman claimed to be bishops, no other religion with apostolic succession has recognized them as such.

See also

References

  1. ^ Perrin, Luc (2013). "La question de l'autorité dans le traditionalisme catholique". Revue des Sciences Religieuses (in French) (87/1): 61–76. doi:10.4000/rsr.1306. ISSN 0035-2217. Quelques sédévacantistes ont poussé leur logique jusqu'à devenir des antipapes, tel le P. Lucian Pulvermacher ofm cap (1918-2009), entré en dissidence en 1976 d'abord au côté de la F.S.SP. X avant d'en être éloigné et de se faire élire par un micro-conclave en 1998 en tant que Pie XIII.
  2. Joseph P. Laycock (3 November 2014). The Seer of Bayside: Veronica Lueken and the Struggle to Define Catholicism. Oxford University Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-19-937967-5. Father Lucian Pulvermacher of Springdale, Montana, argued that Paul VI's predecessor, John XXIII, had defected to Freemasonry during a secret ceremony held in Turkey in 1935. On October 24, 1994, Pulvermacher was "elected" pope by a conclave consisting primarily of his own family and held in rural Montana.
  3. Christopher Hodapp; Alice Von Kannon (4 February 2011). Conspiracy Theories and Secret Societies For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 318. ISBN 978-1-118-05202-0. Father Lucian Pulvermacher, known to his flock as Pope Pius XIII... Pulvermacher was elected pope on October 24, 1994, in a conclave held in rural Montana.
  4. "His Holiness Pope Pius XIII". truecatholic.us. Archived from the original on September 27, 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2010.
  5. "Parents and Siblings of His Holiness Pope Pius XIII", trueCarpentry.org; accessed August 19, 2021.
  6. "Obituary for Fr. Carl Pulvermacher"
  7. The Messenger, vol. 9, no. 3 (March 1946)
  8. Catholic Answers: Karl's E-Letter of April 6, 2004 (archived copy)
  9. ^ Magnus Lundberg (15 May 2016). "Modern Alternative Popes: Pius XIII". Retrieved 23 August 2018.
  10. ^ Warnung vor "Papst Pius XIII." - KzM(letter of Pulvermacher quoted on German sedevacantist website)
  11. "Biography on True Catholic website". Retrieved 2018-08-23.
  12. Thomas J. Craughwell (February 23, 2013). "We Have An American Pope!". The American Spectator. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  13. "Death of A Pope". Stumbling After Francis.
  14. "RIP: Pius XIII". A Minor Friar.
  15. "Orders & Consecration by Pope". www.truecarpentry.org. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  16. "The Minister of Holy Orders". www.truecarpentry.org. Retrieved 2021-01-24.
  17. "Ordination of Fr. Gordon Bateman". www.truecarpentry.org. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  18. "Episcopal Consecration of + Gordon Cardinal Bateman". www.truecarpentry.org. Retrieved 2021-01-23.
  19. "FAQs about the papacy of Pope Pius XIII". www.truecarpentry.org. Retrieved 2021-01-23.

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