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True Catholic Church - Election of pope
Pulvermacher's purported election as Pope was the third such consecutive conclavist election, the first being that of David Bawden (Pope Michael) in Kansas, U.S.A., 1990 and of Fr. Victor von Pentz (Linus II) in Assisi, Italy, 1994. Neither "Linus II" nor the later "Pius XIII" provided any statement why the earlier Conclavist elections were to be disregarded.
Sedevacantists and Conclavists claim that John XXIII incurred automatic excommunication for publicly holding heresy from his early years as a priest. The "true Catholic Church" specifically claims that he had became a Freemason in 1935 while serving as papal nuncio to Turkey; such an act would have earned him automatic excommunication, and therefore, according to the provisions of Pope Paul IV's 1556 legislation, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio invalidated his subsequent election as Pope.
The proposition has also been made, by a Fr. Brian Harrison ([1]), basing himself on Pope Pius XII's legislation Vacantis Apostolicae Sedis (December 8, 1945) governing the election of his successors, that even an excommunicated cardinal can be elected to and exercise the papal office. This has however been shown to be a falsification of Pope Pius XII's legislation, which only excuses disciplinary (i.e. "minor") excommunication, not doctrinal (or "major") excommunication, which still maintained the provisions of Pope Paul IV excluding such an excommunicate.
The tCC maintains that none of John XXIII's successors (Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI) has been a true Catholic, and that all have hence been ineligible for the papacy. In 2002, it was revealed that Pius XIII had practiced divination since his time as a seminarian, and it was subsequently suggested that he had thereby incurred excommunication and was accordingly, on his own logic, ineligible for the Papacy. One of his cardinals, Gordon Bateman, his one-time principal collaborator, dissociated himself from the tCC as a result.
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