HABEMUS PAPAM."We have a pope" solemnly announces the home page of"His Holiness Pope Pius XIII Pope Pius XIII is a potential name of a Pope. As of yet, there has been no Pope of that name, as the most recent Pope Pius was Pius XII, who died in 1958. The name was adopted by Lucian Pulvermacher, leader of the self-styled true Catholic Church " (www.true-catholic.org/pope). Largely unnoticed by the rest of the world, a tiny splinter group of radical traditionalist Catholics elected this "pope" last year in Montana. The papal election of Father Lucian Pulvermacher, formerly a Capuchin capuchin (kăp`y  chĭn), name for New World monkeys of the genus Cebus, widely distributed in tropical forests of Central and South America. priest, was staged by a "conclave conclaveIn the Roman Catholic church, the assembly of cardinals gathered to elect a new pope and the system of strict seclusion to which they submit. From 1059 the election became the responsibility of the cardinals. " of the remnant "true Catholic Church" (tCC) and came complete with the traditional white smoke. A picture of "the actual white smoke of the Conclave of 1998" can be seen on the Web site. "Instead of hundreds of thousands of cheering faithful in Vatican square, the white smoke was seen only by a handful of the faithful, as well as by God's creatures of the forest." The true believers of the tCC belong to the "sedevacantist" wing of traditionalist Catholics, which believes that the Holy See has been vacant since the death of Pope Pius XII Pope Pius XII (Latin: Pius PP. XII), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as the 260th pope, the head of the Roman Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City, from March 2, 1939 until his death. in 1958. In this view, the four subsequent popes have been apostate impostors and "that unfortunate and diabolical Council Vatican II" has spawned a "Church of Satan The Church of Satan is an organization for those who practice self-preservation as articulated in The Satanic Bible, written in 1969 by Anton Szandor LaVey. ." Pulvermacher was the only ordained or·dain tr.v. or·dained, or·dain·ing, or·dains 1. a. To invest with ministerial or priestly authority; confer holy orders on. b. To authorize as a rabbi. 2. priest in the tCC, and, before his election, he had to defend himself for having waited until 1976 before cutting his ties with Rome. The new pontiff explains: "All those who slander me as being part and parcel of the Novus Ordo [the post-Vatican II New Order of the Mass] ... better revamp their thinking, to be fair and square with God and man. I was in the Novus Ordo shell, but I never was an organic part of the worm inside the shell." |
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