Sedevacantism seems to be making a small scale comeback. There was a time in the 1980s when there were four "Real Popes" reigning - one each in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Canada. Then we had a guy who was elected Pope in a hotel in Assisi and Pius XIII issuing encyclicals from the wilds of Montana. And there was at least one other Real Pop…
Sedevacantism seems to be making a small scale comeback. There was a time in the 1980s when there were four "Real Popes" reigning - one each in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Canada. Then we had a guy who was elected Pope in a hotel in Assisi and Pius XIII issuing encyclicals from the wilds of Montana. And there was at least one other Real Pope elsewhere in the USA whose name I can't remember.
And you have the logical sedevacatists over at Novus Ordo Watch. They are what I call Micawberite theologians - waiting for something to turn up. They wisely refuse to add another Real Pope to this parade of lunacy. But they have no idea of how a really Real Pope might appear and be recognised in future. Which, as they claim that there has no true Pope since 1958, might still be decades or centuries away.
The other American "pontiff" was Michael I who lived with his parents in Kansas. After his death he was succeeded by "Pope" Michael II who resides in the Philippines.
Sedevacantism seems to be making a small scale comeback. There was a time in the 1980s when there were four "Real Popes" reigning - one each in Italy, Spain, Brazil and Canada. Then we had a guy who was elected Pope in a hotel in Assisi and Pius XIII issuing encyclicals from the wilds of Montana. And there was at least one other Real Pope elsewhere in the USA whose name I can't remember.
And you have the logical sedevacatists over at Novus Ordo Watch. They are what I call Micawberite theologians - waiting for something to turn up. They wisely refuse to add another Real Pope to this parade of lunacy. But they have no idea of how a really Real Pope might appear and be recognised in future. Which, as they claim that there has no true Pope since 1958, might still be decades or centuries away.
The other American "pontiff" was Michael I who lived with his parents in Kansas. After his death he was succeeded by "Pope" Michael II who resides in the Philippines.
Thanks! Pope Michael illustrates one massive problem with a lot of these Real Popes: who will succeed the current Real Pope?