sedevacantism
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26 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Early sedevacantism: origins in the 1960s
- ''The New Montinian Church'' (1970s)
- Positions
- Principal claims
- Authority to declare an Antipope
- Circumstances for a future Pope
- Clergy, Mass, and sacraments
- "''Una cum''" liturgical controversy
- Believers and organisations
- Sedevacantist groups
- Early proponents
- Sedevacantist bishops
- Consecrated before Vatican II
- Thục-line bishops
- Méndez-line bishops
- Whose lineages derive from earlier movements
- Related concepts
- Sedeprivationism
- Benevacantism
- Society of St. Pius X
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Further reading
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Sedevacantism is a traditionalist Catholic movement which holds that since the 1958 death of Pius XII the occupiers of the Holy See are not valid popes due to their espousal of one or more heresies and that, for lack of a valid pope, the See of Rome is vacant. Sedevacantism owes its origins to the rejection of the theological and disciplinary changes implemented following the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965).