Father Daniel E. Jones
Daniel Jones was ordained in 1968 shortly before the introduction of the New Rite of Ordination by Fr. Charles Buswell. Buswell was formerly a priest of the Dioceses of Oklahoma City and Tulsa, serving first at the Cathedral in Oklahoma City and then later at Christ the King Parish in Oklahoma City. In 1959 Angelo Roncalli appointed him to the diocese of Pueblo, Colorado. Buswell was a notable liberal, especially after Vatican II.Jones departed the Novus Ordo in the early days to become a Traditionalist. He first affiliated with a fellow member of the John Birch Society, Fr. Francis E. Fenton, who founded the ORCM (Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement). When Fr. Robert McKenna, OP ousted Fenton, Fenton mooed to Colorado Springs, Colorado. Jones, who lives in Westcliffe, Colorado stayed with Fenton and his new Traditional Catholics of America. In the late 1980's Jones became a primary promoter of the Siri Theory. Jones had long run Sangre de Cristo Newsnotes which one person called the hunt and fish Traditionalist newsletter. This newsletter was noted for a fair amount of hunting and fishing, Traditionalism and Protestantism and then some even more radical theories, such as British Israelism. Between 1978 and 1990, Jones published:Five parts of the Exile of the Pope Elect. The first four parts were consistent in holding to the 1963 and 1978 elections of Siri, supported by newspaper articles and a white dove landing on Siri's head in the late '50's. The fifth part, which was long delayed from the first four parts shifted to the New Siri Theory, which claimed Siri was elected and accepted the election on October 26, 1958, taking the name of Gregory XVII. This also was supported with newspaper articles. (Part 3 is typical of the original Siri theory.)Jones also published the article from three people who questioned Siri, which started the whole theory. (This came before Giuffre's series.)Finally Jones published Fr. Peter Tran Van Khoat's Pentecost 1990 announcement calling for the secret Siri cardinals to assemble and elect a successor. In 1992, Jones tired of the Siri thing, which was going no where. He announced his acceptance of Pope Gregory XVII, Gaston Tremblay of Saint Jovite, Canada. Tremblay was successor to Michael Collin, who reigned as Pope Clement XV, mystically appointed by God in 1950, but not assuming reign until after the death of Angelo Roncalli in 1963. Because of his machinations, Pope Pius XII excommunicated Michael Collin in the 1950s.Soon Jones was accepting consecration as Bishop by Tremblay, which caused most of his followers to desert him. Jones apparently had no problem with the apparitions, which ordered Tremblay to ordain and consecrate women priests and bishops. The latest word is that Jones has separated from Tremblay and retired to his Westcliffe home. Michael Fighting
"Michael…who standeth for…thy people," — Dan. 12:1-12
