SEDE VACANTE

Sedevacantism American Catholicism’s only homegrown new religious movement NRM argues that the Catholic Church has sunk into heresy at the hands of false popes It sits at the extremes of two growing phenomena Traditionalist Catholicism and Independent Catholicism The only Roman Catholic bishop ever to espouse Sedevacantism was Archbishop Pierre Martin NgodinhThục but who was heARCHBISHOP THỤC Godfather of Vietnam’s notorious ruling clan key CIA contact and apologist for a brutal failing regime But Thục escaped leaving behind a mysterious fortune secret deals abuse coverups and the Vietnam War In exile Thục helped launch the fanatical Palmarian cult which later canonized Franco and Hitler inspired assorted renegades and reemerged as the icon of a new hardline movement called Sedevacantism SEDE VACANTE The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thục painstakingly reconstructs this remarkable story from French Indochina to the Japanese occupation from the Communist revolution to the doomed USbacked puppet regime from Thục’s exile to his role in Vatican II Sede Vacante investigates the origins of the secretive Palmarian cult and analyzes the theological sacramental and canonical issues arising from all of Thục’s exploits it explains why now more than ever Catholics and nonCatholics alike should be aware of Sedevacantism