Palmarian Catholic Church

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The Palmarian Catholic Church or Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Palmarian Church , full Spanish name: Iglesia Cristiana Palmariana de los Carmelitas de la Santa Faz ("Christian Palmarian Church of the Carmelites of la Santa Faz"), is one of Clemente Domínguez y Gómez founded community which - after the development of the Roman Catholic Church since the Second Vatican Council , regarded as a decline - regards itself as the only remaining remnant of the true Catholic Church. By contrast, the Roman Catholic Church regards it as schismatic and heretical . The current head ("Pope") of the Palmarian Catholic Church has been Pedro III since 2016.

history

The Marian apparitions from Palmar de Troya

The Palmarian Catholic Church refers to an apparition of Mary from 1968 in the Palmar de Troya in southern Spain (near Seville ). There the Virgin Mary appeared to several children. In 1969 Clemente Domínguez visited the place of the apparition, where he had a divine vision. According to him, various miracles and stigmatizations happened to him from 1970 onwards . However, these were very doubtful on closer investigations, as the blood spilled did not match the blood group of Clemente Domínguez. An important point in the apparition messages was the vision, Paul VI. had been imprisoned by a cardinal conspiracy and kept under the influence of drugs.

Until the founding of the Palmarian Catholic Church

In 1970 Clemente Domínguez y Gómez founded the Order of the Carmelites of the Holy Face. 1975 Domínguez (together with other of his followers) from the emeritus Archbishop of Hue (Vietnam) and the then titular Archbishop of Bulla Regia , Ngô Đình Thục , for priests ordained. Ten days later he was consecrated bishop in 1976, together with Manuel Corral (his successor) and three older Roman Catholic priests, Camilo Estevez Puga de Maside (diocesan priest from Spain; now deceased), Michael Thomas Donelly (diocesan priest from Ireland; from resigned from the Palmarian Catholic Church, reconciled to the Holy See and passed away) and Francis Bernard Sandler (Benedictine from the United States). All subsequent priestly and episcopal ordinations granted in the Palmarian Catholic Church are derived from this episcopal consecration by Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục.

In 1976, Clemente went blind as a result of a car accident and - according to him, following an inspiration from Mary - now called himself "Bishop Fernando". Pope Paul VI excommunicated after the episcopal ordinations 1976 Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục and the five men consecrated by him. However, shortly after the consecration, Ngô Đình Thục came to the conclusion that he had made “a great mistake”, although in good faith. He decided that the apparitions were not real after all. Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục asked for forgiveness and received absolution and the lifting of excommunication and ecclesiastical punishments.

The Popes

Gregory XVII.

When Pope Paul VI. died on August 6, 1978, Bishop Fernando was crowned Pope by his cardinals based on a new vision and took the name Gregory XVII. on. He described himself as the new head of the church, as the "Pontiff of Palmar de Troya, Patriarch of Palmar de Troya and the West". God moved the Holy See from Rome to Palmar.

After his enthronement as antipope , Clemente Domínguez continued the polemic he had begun in 1969 against the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church, which he regarded as succumbing to modernism , Satan , Freemasonry and communism . According to Clemente Domínguez, the divine guidance of the popes ceased from the city of Rome with the death of Pope Paul VI. (1963–1978) to insist. The Palmarian Church claims that Pope Paul VI. was drugged by a group of Vatican conspirators during his pontificate and thus deprived of his effective exercise of power. Paul VI is thus venerated by the Palmarian Catholic Church as a martyr and saint, as he was "a victim of evil forces".

Clemente Domínguez (antipope Gregory XVII) and the priests, bishops and cardinals ordained by him were again excommunicated in 1983 from the Roman Catholic Church. On March 22, 2005, Clemente Domínguez died completely unexpectedly during a mass he was celebrating. His followers see his prophecy, repeated several times afterwards, that he would die “on Calvaria” (which until then was interpreted as an apocalyptically motivated return of the Palmarian antipope to the Holy Land) as fulfilled.

Under Clemente the Bible was revised according to the Palmarian style. This so-called “blue Bible” (or “blue book”) caused a greater division. Those who were not prepared to burn or destroy their Bible were threatened with excommunication, which was often pronounced. From this crisis, the dissident movement emerged around the place Archidona, whose inhabitants speak the palmarianischen sedevacantists form. With the publication of the Palmarian Bible, Clemente fell into heresy and therefore one should not follow him and his successors until this step is reversed. Apparently several measuring centers, also in Germany, broke away from the Palmarian Church after this step.

Peter II

After the death of Gregory XVII. (Clemente Domínguez) his successor (designated by him), the previous “Cardinal Secretary of State” of the Palmarian Catholic Church, Manuel Corral (known as “Cardinal Isidor Maria”), who took on the papal name of Pedro II Top of the community. After Peter II took office, there was a request to read all of Gregory XVII's writings. to be destroyed in order to be free for the new encyclicals and doctrines. The already rigid regulations on dealing with non-Palmarians were tightened relatively quickly. Palmarians were no longer allowed to talk to non-Palmarians. This has had catastrophic effects on families in some cases. Peter II died on July 15, 2011.

Gregory XVIII.

Successor of Peter II was Jesús Ginés Hernández, who called himself Padre Sergio María, a former seminarian and former soldier from Mula (Murcia), as Gregory XVIII. On April 22, 2016 , he left his Palmarian papat and lived with a mate. In May 2016 he declared about the Palmarian Church: “Desde el principio fue todo un montaje” (“From the beginning everything was a montage”).

Peter III

On April 23, 2016, the Swiss Joseph Odermatt was elected as successor , who called himself Padre Eliseo Maria as a clergyman and was previously the “State Secretary” of the abdicated “Pope”. He took the name Pedro III. (Peter III.).

Teaching

The Palmarian Church initially pursued a pre-conciliar course in matters of traditional Latin liturgy and theology, which later underwent some radical changes through the "Holy and Great Council of Palmar". She first reintroduced the Tridentine celebration of mass , rejecting the liturgical reform (1969) that followed the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965 ). Nonetheless, persistence in the so-called "Tridentine rite" was rejected and a new Mass rite of its own was created - although it was partly borrowed from this form of measurement, in which several mystical and modern elements are included. Initiates say that only a fraction of the Holy Mass was left, consisting almost entirely of the words of change .

Some important differences from Catholic teaching are:

  • Mary was raised to a godlike rank
  • Mary held a priesthood that was below the priesthood of Christ but was higher than the ministerial priesthood
  • next to Jesus Christ, Mary is also present in the Eucharistic figures, namely in a kneeling figure
  • in ordination the priest marries Mary
  • besides Mary there are also other beings who were born without the stain of original sin and who live on a “planet Mary”
  • not only is an Antichrist expected, but also an Antimaria

The focus of the teaching of the Palmarian Church is Mary , the Mother of God . According to the teaching of the Palmarian Church, she is the giver of all graces, co-redeemer and queen of heaven and earth. According to a Palmarian dogma, she too is present body and blood in the Eucharist . According to the followers of the Palmarian Church, these thoughts are often taken from the private revelations to the Venerable Servant of God María of Ágreda or developed from them. The already in 1673 in Rome initiated the process of beatification of the Spanish Abbess has not been completed in the Roman Catholic Church, Maria, however, of Ágreda as saints and even as the palmarianisch Catholic Church Doctor of the Church worshiped. St. Joseph is considered a co-redeemer; According to the teaching of the Palmarian Church, he was raised at the death of Jesus Christ and taken up into heaven with body and soul. The Palmarian Church expected the return of Christ, preceded by interplanetary war, before 2015.

In the Palmarian Catholic Church, women are not supposed to wear trousers, which is justified by a passage in the book of Deuteronomy which, according to some interpretations, forbids women to wear “men's clothing”.

organization

Cathedral of the Palmarian Catholic Church in Palmar de Troya

Its headquarters, the Church in El Palmar de Troya 37 ° 3 '22.9 "  N , 5 ° 48' 32.2"  W . From here a diocesan structure was set up on an international level. According to its own estimates, the church has around 10,000 members worldwide. The Church also has centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland . There are also congregations in Colombia , where Clemente Domínguez y Gómez was proclaimed “Pope”. The inner circle consists of several brothers, sisters and about sixty priests.

Canonizations

Naturally, the Palmarian Church sees all canonizations that the Popes after Paul VI. made, not as canonical. On the other hand, she herself recognized the predicate holy to persons who also show the political affinity of the community, including:

and others more. The rumor spread by some magazines that Adolf Hitler and Eva Perón were also among the canonized, is not true. Authors belonging to or who belonged to the Palmarian Church vehemently disagreed. The Palmarian Church also issued excommunications , including the Spanish royal family, all communists and everyone who saw the musical Jesus Christ Superstar .

Spin-offs

Several groups have split off from the Palmarian Catholic Church - among other things because of differences in doctrine - in Germany an Arch Brotherhood of St. Michael in Munich (which should not be confused with the Evangelical Michael Brotherhood founded in 1931 or the Tridentine Church of St. Michael) and the so-called "Archdiocese of Constance". In Spain there is a dissident movement in Málaga .

Similar groupings

A comparable group is the so-called True Catholic Church . Like the Palmarian Catholic Church, she also advocates the thesis of sedis vacantism . In contrast to this, however, Pope Pius XII already sees this . as the last legitimate Pope. The Apostles of Infinite Love also refer to the founder of the Palmarian Catholic Church, Gregory XVII .

accusations

Former Palmarian Catholic Church bishop John Sheehan accuses the denomination of threatening him and his family after he resigned and publicly criticized the Palmarian Catholic Church.

literature

Non-fiction

  • Georg Otto Schmid, Oswald Eggenberger (Hrsgg.): The churches, sects, religions. Religious communities, ideological groups and psycho-organizations in the German-speaking area . Zurich 2003, p. 51 f.
  • Eric W. Steinhauer : The Palmarian Church. "Wilde Volksfrömmigkeit" in the context of post-conciliar traditionalism , in: Reimund Haas (Ed.): Fiat voluntas tua. Theologian and historian - priest and professor. Festschrift for Harm Klueting's 65th birthday on March 23, 2014 . Aschendorff, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-402-13057-5 , pp. 101-124

Fiction

Web links

Commons : Palmarian Church  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Ginesín, el antipapa español in the Interviú magazine of March 15, 2013. Ginesín, el antipapa español
  3. ↑ Utrera digital. In: Punto radio Utrera. Retrieved May 16, 2016 .
  4. ↑ La fuga de un Papa enamorado Article in El País of March 13, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2016.
  5. ↑ Javier Martín-Arroyo: La gran mentira de la Iglesia del Palmar de Troya (The great fraud of the Church of Palmar de Troya), in El País of May 23, 2016 [1] , accessed on March 2, 2018
  6. ^ Sursum Corda: Pope of Palmar de Troya: Peter III. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on March 1, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sursumcordablog.blogspot.com
  7. ↑ El "papa" palmariano "pier de la fe" y abandona la secta de El Palmar de Troya. Retrieved April 26, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The mysterious city of God. Story of the life of the Most Holy Virgin Mary as revealed to the venerable Virgin Mary of Agreda , Madrid 1670
  9. ↑ No sport with God. Article in the period of March 7, 1986. Accessed March 26, 2013.
  10. ↑ Antonio Pineda: La que secta santificó a Franco ( "The sect that Franco canonized") in Vice España of 12 November 2014. Retrieved on March 2, 2018
  11. ↑ Chema Rodríguez: Franco 'resucita' santificado en la iglesia del Palmar de Troya (Franco is risen, canonized in the Church of Palmar de Troya), in El Mundo on October 7, 2014
  12. ↑ Franco luce en la cupula de El Palmar de Troya. Public, October 7, 2014, accessed June 23, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Only the French victims of the civil war are meant
  14. ↑ Franco luce en la cupula de El Palmar de Troya. Public, October 7, 2014, accessed June 23, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Desmontando El Palmar de Troya. Daily newspaper ABC of April 30, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Gregorio XVIII, expapa de El Palmar de Troya por Amor. Daily newspaper El Español of April 30, 2016, April 30, 2016, accessed on June 23, 2018 .
  17. ↑ La fuga de un Papa enamorado Article in El País of March 13, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2016.