CONCLAVIST POPE PIUS XIII
Pius XIII aka Lucian Pulvermacher and head of the True Catholic
Church is not a pope for several reasons. He says he is the first
true pope since Pius XII.
Reason one, all Catholics accepted John XXIII as pope when he was elected.
Church doctrine says that even an invalid election elects a real pope when that
pope is embraced by the Church as its head for God promised that error would
never prevail over the Church. Since the pope is the marker of the true Church
and infallible the Church having the wrong pope means that Satan and evil and
error have triumphed over the Church. Every single Catholic bishop in the world
including Marcel Lefebvre signed the Vatican II documents. The whole Church
accepted Vatican II. It was only when Pope Paul VI started changing the liturgy
that traditionalist Catholics started kicking up.
To say that John XXIII was a false pope is to say the whole Church vanished with
his election for it adhered to a fake pope and became a fake Church. Even Pius
XIII can’t admit that the Church disappeared with John XXIII.
Reason two, conclavist bishops should be doing the elections for they are the
rulers and the highest rank in sedevacantism. If they won’t elect then nobody
has the right to go against them.
Reason three, Pius was not a bishop and the pope is the bishop of Rome. More
about that later. Suffice to say, Pius claims to be a bishop but this depends on
his dubious claim to be pope.
Reason four, Pius XIII should have listened to the sedevacantist view that
instead of trying to elect a new pope they should leave it up to God to convert
the Vatican and for it to restore the papacy itself. When the Church did without
a real pope after the death of Pius XII for decades it can go on longer.
Reason five, Michael had been elected before him and was elected in the same way
so the first elected should be the real pope.
Reason six, commonsense says that if there are two rival claimants to the papacy
and the true pope dies and his followers do not elect a new pope but accept the
rival then the rival though an antipope automatically becomes the true pope by
virtue of his acceptance by the Church. This is why both sides during the
Western Schism when there were two rival popes were heretics and schismatics.
Neither pope headed the true Church for both churches intended to split and
neither side knew for sure who was the real pope. Only false popes can head
false Churches.
Reason seven, only a few accept Pius as the true pope. The rule of needing
acceptance by the Church to be a real pope if the election is problematic is
ignored. Most of the Catholic Church and sedevacantists say they are this Church
not the corporation run by the Vatican were against this election so its
invalid. Pius XIII has no hope of being pope when most of the sedevacantists and
conclavists haven’t approved of his election. Most of these reasons apply to the
refutation of Michael being pope as well.
Reason eight, only cardinals by law have the right to choose a pope. This rule
exists for the good of the people and to prevent DIY popes appearing. The old
rule that the people of the diocese of Rome had the power to elect the pope for
the pope is their bishop sometimes led to factions in that diocese one of which
would have chosen one man as pope and the other somebody else. So it was
abandoned and would be dangerous to restore. However, in a case of absolute
necessity and if there were no cardinals the rule would have to be revived. If
Pius XIII wants to have any chance at being pope he should have had only members
of the diocese of Rome electing him or at least have them delegate the election
to others which they would have the right to do.
Reason nine, there were breakaway Catholic Churches formed in Mexico as a result
of books like The New Montinian Church (which argued that Pope Paul VI was a
heretic who replaced the Catholic Church with a heretical sect). The true
Catholic Church then is just a sect that broke away and appeared long after this
and now claims to be the Catholic Church. The first of the earlier sects
whichever one that is would have a better claim to be the Catholic Church.
Breakaway sects cannot create true popes for only the organisation that is the
Catholic Church by canon law and divine law and reason can have a pope. The pope
after all is the head of the real Catholic Church. This final reason is the
definitive proof that the modern antipopes are fakes. The trouble is they are
right about the Roman Pontiff being a fake so it is impossible to deny that the
gates of Hell have conquered the Catholic Church and the Church is dead. The
Catholic Church is proven to be a hoax for it says using its infallibility that
God has revealed that God’s true Church will never vanish from the earth. The
pre-Vatican II Church claimed to be a visible society united under one head, the
pope. In other words a visible Church – an organisation. Now it claims that
Protestants are members of the Church despite their splits and schisms and the
hatred many of them have towards Catholicism. This is accepting the Protestant
doctrine that the true Church is not an organisation at all but just a oneness
in the sense that they are united with God despite earthly differences and fall
outs. The Vatican II Church then cannot elect popes for it is a Protestant
Church denying a major Catholic doctrine that had been believed from the
foundation of the Catholic Church.
Pius XIII was elected in 1998 and Michael I some years before but the timing of
their conclaves was all wrong. If they had any hope of being real pope they
would know that no matter how bad things look concerning the validity of the
popes in the Vatican it is safer in case one is wrong to wait until the Vatican
pope dies but they went and got elected when John Paul II was alive! The rule is
that until you get proof that the woman you are married to was married invalidly
you must consider her to be your wife and others must do the same and the same
applies to the pope. There is the thesis to consider as well that though a man
might be pope legally he might not be pope morally. In other words, if a heretic
bent on destroying the Church becomes pope he is a real pope and should be
obeyed as far as possible but not when he commands sin and shouldn’t be listened
to when he teaches heresy. Christ never promised to choose only good popes and
many popes have been evil and did nothing against error.
Pius XIII was just a priest when elected. Now a true pope has to be the bishop
of Rome. The problem was he was not a bishop and there was no way he could
become one. Despite the fact that the Catholic Church regards Stephen II as a
true pope, he was not for he was not a bishop and died before his consecration.
Only the bishop of Rome can be the pope. Roman Catholicism teaches that only
bishops can validly and sacramentally ordain priests and bishops. Pius XIII was
then a fraud for he became pope and functioned as pope for a long time without
being a bishop. It would have been different had he been elected knowing there
was a bishop to consecrate him as soon as possible.
Pius XIII was not a bishop and had no prospect of becoming one so he came up
with an ingenious solution. Pius XIII years after his “election” decided that
priests can ordain priests and if the pope grants the power they can make
bishops too. He then ordained a man as bishop who then ordained him! There is no
evidence that any of the popes claimed that the pope could do this and grant
that authority to priests. Why couldn’t he ordain himself?
Roman Catholicism teaches that only bishops can ordain priests and bishops. Ott
in his book Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma reports that the popes did permit
Abbots who were not ordained bishops to ordain priests. Though there is support
for the view that a priest can ordain priests in tradition nothing exists in
tradition to support the idea that a priest can ordain a bishop. It is heresy
then for a priest to ordain bishops. The vast majority of Catholics, Orthodox
and Anglicans would not accept Pius XIII for denying this tradition and would
God let a true pope come up with a doctrine that is anathema and a put off to
the world at a time God wants the true Church built up again? The doctrine of
Pius XIII is a novelty while we must remember that doctrines accepted by the
Church as a whole are considered infallible for Christ promised infallibility to
his Church. The whole Church believed that priests couldn’t make bishops so the
doctrine is against the Magisterium or infallible teaching authority of the
Catholic Church.
In fairness, if the pope was the rock the Church was built on and the pope was a
layman or priest and the pope needed to ordain priests and bishops then
logically the pope automatically gets the power to preserve the sacramental life
of the Church. Though not a bishop he can ordain bishops and they can ordain him
then. But the Church argues that this allows even laymen who are elected pope to
ordain bishops and priests while the Church has always restricted ordination
powers to bishops to prevent schism and protect Church unity. Some theologians
might say that though in principle the pope should have that power he could only
use it in extreme necessity and God would never let it be necessary for it is so
dangerous to Church unity. Pius XIII was hardly in a case of extreme necessity
for he could have waited and trusted in God and shouldn’t have been elected
until a bishop was found. And Pius XIII would deny that a lay pope could give a
layman the power to ordain bishops. If so then priest popes cannot have the
power to give a priest the power to ordain bishops. The same is true if they
can’t ordain themselves as bishops.
Granted, it would be bizarre if the pope was given infallibility to preserve the
Church forever in the right faith and not granted the power to keep the
sacraments alive by having the power to let a priest make him bishop. But surely
a priest cannot be bishop of Rome until he is ordained a bishop? That is why I
believe that there is no way the Catholic pope Stephen II could really have been
a pope for he died before he was consecrated a bishop so he was not bishop of
Rome. (So God chose a pope who dies before he becomes pope! How crazy does the
Catholic Church think we are?) Michael I and Pius XIII were not bishops and so
they are not popes. If God had meant for Pius XIII to be pope he would have sent
him a bishop to ordain him rather than tolerate a controversial Episcopal
consecration. Absolute proof would be needed for Pius XIII being pope before God
could let him ordain bishops despite not being a bishop. But we don’t have this
proof and also Pope Michael has beat Pius XIII to the papacy and all
sedevacantists were called on to vote in Michael’s conclave and few did. Michael
has a bigger claim to be pope than Pius XIII.
The pope who has never undergone an Episcopal consecration can’t have the power
to ordain a man a bishop for the pope is not pope until he becomes a bishop
himself. That is why Pius XIII’s idea that the pope can restore the ordinations
even if he is not a bishop is flawed. Pius will reply that if God chooses a
priest or layman as pope then God intends him to become a bishop so he can
ordain somebody a bishop to ordain him back as a bishop so that is what the pope
must do if he has no valid bishop to ordain him and make him pope. A papal
conclave which can choose a man who is not a bishop as pope is invalid unless
there is a true bishop available to do the consecration soon if not immediately.
Pius XIII had nobody. God would not let Pius XIII become a bishop by the unusual
way he claims he became a bishop for that enables anybody who claims to be pope
to ordain not just whoever they like but ordain themselves bishops as well. God
would only allow the unusual way in extreme circumstances and the Pius XIII
circumstances are not extreme. There are traditional bishops who could ordain
him as bishop and Pius XIII claims there was no pope since the death of Pius XII
in 1958. So God could wait and the Church could wait until the right time. Pius
XIII functioned as pope before he became a “bishop” making him a heretic.
Popes who ordain themselves or who are ordained by priests as bishops while
claiming like Pius XIII that their claim to be real bishops is based on the
validity of the papal election demand too much faith. They say the pope gets
power to restore Episcopal orders without apostolic succession. Is it not
dangerous to put all your faith in the sacraments in one man? Any fake pope can
claim the same thing which makes it easy for them to claim to be bishops.