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{{Short description|20th and 21st-century schismatic Catholic prelate}}
Father '''Earl Lucian Pulvermacher''', OFM Cap (born ], ]) became '''Pope Pius XIII''' of the "]" in 1998. The "true Catholic Church" is a small ] based in ], which claims to be the "true" Catholic Church, as against all other groups or entities claiming that name. Pulvermacher technically could be considered an ] by other denominations, although he has far fewer followers than the historical antipopes.
{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Antipope
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⚫ | name = Lucian Pulvermacher
| title = Pope Pius XIII
| caption =
| church = True Catholic Church
| birth_name = Earl Pulvermacher
| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|4|20|df=y}}
| birth_place = ], ], United States
| death_date = {{death date and age|2009|11|30|1918|4|20|df=y}}
| death_place = ], ], ], United States
| opposed = {{plainlist|
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| term_start = 24 October 1998<ref name="Perrin2013"/>
| term_end = 30 November 2009
}}
'''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==
Earl Lucian Pulvermacher was born in 1918. He entered the ] Order in 1942 (where he was given a religious name of ''Lucian'') and ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1948. After an initial period as a priest in ] he served as a missionary priest in Amami Oshima and later ]. From 1970 to 1976 he served as a missionary in ]. He left his Order and Australia "without permission" in 1976 and associated with some traditionalist Catholic organizations that had opposed ].
===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===
He claims that none of these satisfied him: he judged them all as too liberal and in error. He gradually drifted away until the 1990s. In the mid-1990s he became convinced that ] had been a ], and that thus his election as pope in 1958 had been invalid. Were that to be so, not just ''his'' papacy and all his acts such as the calling of Vatican II would be invalid, but so in a chain reaction would be the conclave necessitated by his death, the resultant election of Paul VI and in turn both John Pauls (Albiano Luciani and Karol Wojtyla). According to Pulvermacher's theory, the ] had been vacant since the death of ] in 1958.
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===
]
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"/>
In 1998, a conclave of conservative catholics, both lay and clerical, in a telephone vote elected Pulvermacher to the allegedly vacant papacy (see ]). The new pope has now established his College of Cardinals to provide an ecclesiatical mechanism for the election of his successors.


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
]
|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>
Though he has adherents, his support is mainly limited to a few people in Montana. Only 28 attended his purported episcopal ordination in a hotel ballroom following his "election". It is noteworthy that he castigates not only what is usually understood as the "]" but also (and often with greater fervor) all traditionalist Catholics who reject his claim to be the true pope.


==Holy Orders==
] was a married ]n layman who belonged to Pulvermacher's circle of friends. Pulvermacher persuaded Bateman to take part in a complicated exercise, whereby Pulvermacher, after being supposedly elected pope, "dispensed" himself from restrictions on his priestly orders, and thereby "consecrated" Bateman a Bishop; thereafter Bateman consecrated Pulvermacher a bishop. As a result, Bateman's marriage broke up.
{{Self-published|section|date=January 2021}}
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==
Subsequently, Bateman fell away from Pulvermacher after he discovered a curious fact: That Pulvermacher, from his seminarian days, had practiced "divining" with a pendulum. Pulvermacher does not deny this, but on the contrary has defended this. However, as a result, Pulvermacher had himself incurred excommunication on account of ]'s (rarely obeyed) ban on such practices. Thus Pulvermacher, having previously proclaimed John XXIII's supposed ineligability for the papacy because of his supposed membership of the Freemasons, was himself ineligible to be elected "Pope" under Catholic law. While the claims against Pope John remain unproven and disputed, in the case of Pulvermacher he himself had openly admitted they were true.
*] for a more general discussion of this phenomenon

*] and ] for other ] claimants to the papacy
Bateman, at the present, is attempting, along with his relatives, to bring the various Sedevacantist factions together into unity. This is the "St. Gabriel's Group" (*)
*Popes ], ], ], ] and ], whose papal reigns "Pope Pius XIII" claimed to be illicit and invalid.


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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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