SEDEVACANTISM is the theological position that the popes since Vatican II have not been valid popes due to their public heresies. Sedevacantism first emerged at the seminary led by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre in Ecône, Switzerland in the 1970s. At that time, it was not considered a thought crime, as it is today. The archbishop himself made statements in favor of it, according to the Rev. Anthony Cekada, who attended Ecône. In 1987, to take but one example, Abp. Lefebvre, then in retirement, said:

Rome has left the Faith, my dear friends. Rome is in apostasy. These are not words in the air. It is the truth. Rome is in apostasy… They have left the Church… This is sure, sure, sure.

Fr. Cekada discusses the history of the sedevacantist movement in this video, which can also be found here with a brief summary.

The International Seminary of St. Pius X in Econe

In related news, here is the latest episode of Tradcast, an informative and fun radio program about sedevacantism. Some Catholics are so unhappy with “Pope” Francis that there is talk of “deposing” him. This episode explains that deposing a pope is absolutely impossible. There’s also more on a new anti-sedevacantist book.

Jorge Bergoglio will surely be tuning in to find out what these “self-absorbed Promethean neo-Pelagians,” as he would put it, have to say:

“What are those rigid, triumphalist rosary-counters saying about me now?”

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