Priests Who Have Supported a Papal Election
Throughout the last half a century a number of priests have supported the election of a Pope,Many veterans of the movement to return to the Catholic Church after the usurpation by Roncalli will know of Fr. Leo F. MacNamara. He said" Wait for Peter, meaning the true Pope to sometime be elected. He died in the early 1970's, but never recited the Novus Ordo Missae. Of course, Fr. Joachin Saemz-Arriaga promtoed a Papal Election until his death in 1976, In fact there were rumors that he wanted to elect Lefebvre, although he was unaware of Lefebvre's membership in the Priory of Zion among other things. It was in the fall of 1976 the Fr. Carl Pulvermacher said: Someday we will have to elect our own Pope. No, this was not Fr. Lucian Pulvermacher, who eventually held a phone in papal election in 1998, but his brother, who was with the Society of Saint Pius X from 1976 until his death. Fr, Carl Pulvermahcer also said that when the Pog Church has done away with all of the valid priests with the New Rite of Ordination, they would give us the Mass back. The priests with Veritas out of Kentucky must have agreed with printing what Fr. Saenz had said. (Their names to our knowledge have never been revealed. They are all now deceased.)In 1978 it was rumored that Marcel Lefebvre received three votes in both conclaves. The reasoning was that he was the only one truly eligible, the majority of Cardinals being Modernists and thus not Catholic and therefore not Cardinals. This being true, then these three votes must be the only valid votes, therefore Lefebvre must be Pope. Although Lefebvre acted as if he were Pope, he never claimed that he had been elected. In 1982 Bishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc consecrated three bishops in order to preserve the Apostolic Succession of Orders until a Pope could be elected. One of his bishops, Fr. George Musey confirmed this in his publication in 1983. In 1983 Bishop Musey wrote an open letter to Archbishop Lefebvre in which he called for a Papal Election. By the Bishops of the Church, says St. Robert Bellarmine in his classic work DE CONCILIIS ET ECCLESIA, I, c. 14. In the event of the papacy being vacant because of heresy, it would be for them to convene, he says, in a General Council – though “Imperfect” – for this sole purpose, namely to “supply the Church with a head.” Why do you take no account of this great authority either?In the late 1980's a Lefebvre priest contacted Patrick Henry for information on a Papal Election. It is possible Lefebvre was planning to consecrate Bishops and carry through with an election. At the same time he called Wojtyla an antichrist. Fr. Jan Sieradzan from Canada and Fr. Lopez-Gaston supported a Papal Election in 1989 and 1990. However neither wished to participate in the Election. Lopez-Gaston and two others called for a Papal Election in the late 1990s. They had also participated in teh election of Antipoep Linus II as had several other Traditionalist priests. On June 3, 1990, Fr. Peter Tran Van Khoat called for a Papal Election. Fr. Daniel Jones published this in his newsletter Sangre de Cristo Newsnotes. On July 15, 1990, Fr. Patrick Henry CMRI arrives with Kenneth Mock to possibly participate in the Papal Election. He had been in contact with David Bawden and Teresa Benns in regard to this effort for several years. It should be noted that Patrick Henry doubts the validity of his ordination by Francis Schuckardt. 
Michael Fighting
