Lucian Pulvermacher
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Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher (born Earl Pulvermacher on April 20, 1918) is a traditionalist Roman Catholic priest. He is the head of the "true Catholic Church," a small conclavist group that elected him Pope Pius XIII in October, 1998. He currently resides in Springdale, Washington, United States.
Ministry up to the mid-1990s
Born in 1918 near Marshfield, Wisconsin,[1] Earl Pulvermacher was one of nine children of a farm family.[citation needed] His three brothers all became priests.[citation needed] In 1942, at the age of 24, he joined the Capuchin Order, taking the religious name Lucian.[citation needed] He was subsequently ordained to the priesthood on June 5, 1946.[2] At first he was posted to a parish in Milwaukee, but in 1948 he was sent to Japan.[3] He spent the greater part of his career as a Capuchin (from 1948 to 1970) as a missionary priest in the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa.[citation needed] In 1970, he was transferred from Japan to Australia, where he continued his missionary work until his disillusionment with the changes that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-1965.[4] In January, 1976 he left the Capuchin Order, and returned to the United States. "I was without money," he later remembered, "without a home or anything. The few things I brought along with me I could carry in two bags." [1] He left what he called “the Novus Ordo, bogus Council Vatican II Church” and spent eight months “with the general Latin Mass traditionalists until I saw there was no unity. Hence, I am alone on the job here in the States since August 1976.”[4]
Pulvermacher prided himself on an austere life: “I have my own residence (really small). Since November the first I have one helper, Miss Theresa Gutenberger, who serves as secretary and cook. Hence, if you call here you can expect (during the working hours) to have her answer the phone."[4] From August 1976 onwards, Fr. Pulvermacher established and served a circuit of private chapels across the United States, working as an independent traditionalist priest unaffiliated with any formal religious order or society. [citation needed] None of his congregations satisfied him; he judged them all too liberal and modernistic.[citation needed]
References
See also
- Sedevacantism for a more general discussion of this phenomenon
- David Bawden and Manuel Corral for other primary conclavist claimants to the Papacy
- Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, whose papal reigns "Pope Pius XIII" claims to be illicit and invalid.
External links
- A letter from "Pope Pius XIII" (from Catholic Answers)
- Roddy, Dennis (2005-04-10). "Popes in the wings". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
- The Vatican-In-Exile (a conclavist site that opposes Pulvermacher's claims)
- Restoring the Catholic Church
- truecatholic website