Sedeprivationism

December 19, 2025 - Sedeprivationism is a doctrinal position within Traditionalist Catholicism invented by the excommunicated theologian Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers which holds that the current occupant of the Holy See is a duly-elected pope, but lacks the authority and ability to teach or to govern unless ...

1 week ago - After the death of Paul VI in 1978, the opportunity to do this had passed and Guérard des Lauriers was forced, by the logic of his own arguments, to adopt the position of sedeprivationism in 1979 – breaking with sedevacantism proper or “totalism” as it is sometimes called – claiming instead that the Vatican-based, post-Conciliar claimants to the Papacy were indeed Popes “materially but not formally.”

May 24, 2019 - The term means that there is a privation in the occupant of the chair of Saint Peter, i.e. something lacking. According to sedeprivationism, Popes John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II and Benedict XVI were and are defective popes because ...

Sedeprivationism definition: The school of thought, in Roman Catholicism, that the popes from John XXIII were defective because of their modernist views.

Sedeprivationism, as it has come to be called, is based on a thesis by theologian Michel Louis Guérard des Lauriers, O.P. Des Lauriers’ "Cassiciacum thesis" is summed up as follows… Francis is the pope materially but not formally, expressed by a formula "papa materialiter non formaliter".

June 17, 2019 - Unlike mainstream sedevacantism, however, there is a catch: whereas mainstream sedevacantism says that the current line of Popes is both invalid, and that there is no solution to restore the Papacy, sedeprivationism presents a way that the non-pope can become a Pope formally: by renouncing his errors of Vatican II, and getting himself ordained and consecrated by a traditionalist bishop.

2021 July 1, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., The Conjuring, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 57: Father Gordon in the Conjuring films was based upon Bishop Robert McKenna, O.P. (1927-2015), a longtime associate of the Warrens and Tridentine Catholic who believed in sedeprivationism; that is to say that he only performed mass in […]

Sedeprivationism is an ideological school or party of the "Traditionalist Catholic" movement that follows the principles of the late French theologian Michel Louis Gu�rard des Lauriers, O.P., as Des Lauriers set it out in his thesis published in the "Cahiers du Cassiciacum" and therefore ...

April 22, 2025 - As I said in my book RTCC at the end, the term Sedeprivationist today, should really only be used for two reasons: Etymologically it is a more correct term, because strictly speaking, the chair (sede) of Peter is not actually empty (vacante) but rather it is filled by an impostor that is preventing (privation) the proper filling of it by a valid Bishop.

February 15, 2021 - Sedeprivationism is a belief that the current Pope is legitimate, but he lacks the authority and ability to teach or to govern (usually because he embraces what are considered heretical teachings of Vatican II). Such a belief constitutes material schism: "the refusal of submission to the Supreme ...

In all my posts, I've never discussed the form of sedevacantism known as sedeprivationism (the thesis advanced by the late theologian Bp. Guerard Des Lauriers that the "seat is deprived" of a valid pope). The most vocal and erudite proponent of the thesis is Bishop Donald Sanborn, who wrote ...

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Sédéprivationnisme — Au sein du mouvement traditionaliste catholique, le sédéprivationnisme est une école idéologique ou un parti qui suit les principes du défunt théologien français Michel Louis Guérard des Lauriers, o.p., tels qu ...

2 days ago - Sedeprivationists hold that the current occupant of the papal office is a duly elected pope but lacks the authority and ability to teach or govern unless he recants the changes brought by the Second Vatican Council.

October 3, 2007 - Someone explain sedeprivationism to me.

June 9, 2022 - Sedeprivationism, known as the Cassiciacum Thesis, is a proposed theory of former Dominican Catholic theologian Michel-Louis Guerard des Lauriers, who accomplished many feats under Pope Pius XII as a priest including being an advisor for the ...

Answer (1 of 3): The main problem is that it implicitly removes the Church heirarchy from claims to authority by dividing between the material (content) and formal (structural) papacy, affirming one but rejecting the other. The Pope occupies a role in the Church analogous to a bishop in his dioce...

September 14, 2022 - On the other hand, the RCI, St. Gertrude, and CMRI are in rift over ideas concerning the proper doctrine of the Papacy. The RCI holds a unique position on the structure of the papacy itself called Sedeprivationism (the specifics of which are not important for the scope of this article).

Sedeprivationism is a doctrinal position within Traditionalist Catholicism invented by the excommunicated theologian Michel-Louis Guérard des Lauriers[1] which holds that the current occupant of the Holy See is a duly-elected pope, but lacks the authority and ability to teach or to govern ...