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| Reverend Father '''Earl Lucian Pulvermacher''', OFM Cap (Born: ] ]) is an ] based in ] in the ] who was elected ''' Pope Pius XIII ''' of the ''true Catholic Church'' (tCC) in 1998. | Reverend Father '''Earl Lucian Pulvermacher''', OFM Cap (Born: ], ]) is an ] based in ] in the ] who was elected ''' Pope Pius XIII ''' of the ''true Catholic Church'' (tCC) in 1998. | ||
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| ''' Pope Pius XIII '''<br><small>of the '''true Catholic Church''' (tCC)</small></div> | ''' Pope Pius XIII '''<br><small>of the '''true Catholic Church''' (tCC)</small></div> | ||
| Earl Lucian Pulvermacher |
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 Okinawa. 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 organisations that had opposed ]. | ||
| None of these satisfied |
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, based on unproven allegations, 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 Popes John Paul. According to Pulvemacher's theory, the ] had been vacant since the death of ] in 1958. | ||
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| <small>White smoke announcing the 'election' of Pius XIII in Montana in 1998</small></div> | <small>White smoke announcing the 'election' of Pius XIII in Montana in 1998</small></div> | ||
| 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. | |||
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| <small>The new pope, formerly a priest is raised to the episcopate by Cardinal Bateman</small></div> | <small>The new pope, formerly a priest, is raised to the episcopate by Cardinal Bateman</small></div> | ||
| Though he has adherents, his support is mainly limited to |
Though he has adherents, his support is mainly limited to a few conservative catholics in Montana. Only 28 attended his episcopal ordination in a hotel ballroom following his election to the papacy. | ||
| '''See also:''' ] | |||
| ==External Link== | ===External Link=== | ||
| http://www.truecatholic.org/pope/ |
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Reverend Father Earl Lucian Pulvermacher, OFM Cap (Born: April 20, 1918) is an anti-pope based in Montana in the United States who was elected Pope Pius XIII of the true Catholic Church (tCC) in 1998.
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Pope Pius XIII
of the true Catholic Church (tCC)
Earl Lucian Pulvermacher was born in 1918. He entered the Capuchin 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 Milwaukee he served as a missionary priest in Amami Oshima and later Okinawa. From 1970 to 1976 he served as a missionary in Australia. He left his Order and Australia without permission in 1976 and associated with some traditionalist Catholic organisations that had opposed Vatican II.
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, based on unproven allegations, that Pope John XXIII had been a freemason, 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 Popes John Paul. According to Pulvemacher's theory, the See of Peter had been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.
File:Ppsmoke.jpg
White smoke announcing the 'election' of Pius XIII in Montana in 1998
In 1998, a 'conclave' of conservative catholics, both lay and clerical, in a telephone vote 'elected' Pulvermacher to the allegedly vacant papacy (see Sedevacantism). The new pope has now established his College of Cardinals to provide an ecclesiatical mechanism for the election of his successors.
File:P13-oath.jpg
The new pope, formerly a priest, is raised to the episcopate by Cardinal Bateman
Though he has adherents, his support is mainly limited to a few conservative catholics in Montana. Only 28 attended his episcopal ordination in a hotel ballroom following his election to the papacy.