Pope Dude....of Kansas

Come on...don't act like you didn't want to try this before.

Maybe it shouldn't be so easy to buy vestments online?

Found this on wikipedia a while back...thought it would be fun to share:


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David Bawden
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Justification for electing a pope

According to Catholic theology, the church possesses popes in perpetuity (First Vatican Council, 1870), and it has always the right to supply itself with the Pope. The official process of election, through a papal conclave of the College of Cardinals, is not a divinely ordered process for selection but a method created by the Church to replace earlier methods. Sedevacantists argue that if the College of Cardinals will not or cannot elect a valid pope, ordinary Catholics can do so, under the principle of "Epikeia".

According to sedevacantists, none of the appointments made since 1958 to the College of Cardinals is valid, as the popes who made them were themselves invalid. As there are no surviving members of the pre-1958 College of Cardinals, according to their theory there is no college to do the electing, necessitating a new interim procedure to elect a new pope who would then fill the vacancies and so create a valid College of Cardinals.

Process for his election

Acting on the basis of this, David Bawden was elected Pope by six people (including himself, his parents Mr. Kennett Bawden and Mrs. Clara Bawden, a Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hunt, and a Mrs. Teresa Stanfill-Benns, who had been the main motivator of the Election. Benns since has withdrawn her support of Bawden for heresy she says was expressed pre-election - occultly - in the book she co-authored with him and post-election in Internet posts in September 2006 and March 2007.) The election was held on July 16, 1990 in Belvue, Kansas in the United States in a store owned by the Bawden family.

Mrs. Benns and Mr. David Bawden, who together summoned the assembly to elect the pope in 1990, claim to have invited all orthodox Catholics to join, but received only six respondents. They then formed the assembly which elected Bawden, who took the reign name Michael. He said that his motivation came from Pope Leo XIII's decision to institute the Invocation of St. Michael Archangel, and to add it to every Tridentine Mass.

That invocation was deleted following the Second Vatican Council by Paul VI.

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