John Lane Archive
By: John Lane For many traditionalists, sedevacantism is an uncomfortable idea, a kind of unnecessary, rash, prideful, excess. They regard their own position, that Francis is pope, as more modest, less extreme, less disruptive or divisive – in a word, more Catholic. But …
By: John Lane “very crisis separates an entity from what is alien to it, and simultaneously preserves the essential character of that entity…” – Romano Amerio Sedevacantism is the opinion that the popes since John XXIII have been illegitimate, not true popes, …
Every so-called “traditionalist” worthy of the name knows the story of Pope Liberius. Bishop Athanasius Schneider, who bears the name of the Saint that suffered so much injustice at the unsteady hand of this regrettable pope, retells the tale as follows: In 357, …
Yes, you read the title correctly. As the argument goes, there was a time when the Holy Father – in this case, Pope St. Marcellinus (reigned from 296-304) – publicly offered incense to the emperor, thus openly committing acts of idolatry and apostasy. …
As regular readers of this space are well aware, while I am convinced beyond all doubt that Jorge Mario Bergoglio is not a member of the Body of the Church and thus not her visible head on earth (i.e., he is an anti-pope), …
