David Bawden
Pope Michael I, baptismal name David Allen Bawden (born September 22, 1959), was elected Pope by a group of Conclavists or post-Sedevacantists to fill the vacancy they consider to have been caused by the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. Note that the election of Pope Michael is predicated on the Catholic principles that a public and manifest heretic cannot truly become Catholic Pope, based principally on Pope Paul IV's Constitution "Cum ex Apostolatus Officio" and also Pope St. Pius X's Motu Proprio. 18th November 1907 titled "Praestantia Scriptura":
"We declare and determine that if anyone, which may God forbid, should go forward so brazenly as to defend any proposition reprobated in either of these documents, by that fact itself, he incurs excommunication reserved to the Roman Pontiff."
The Papacy was therefore vacant, since the death of Pope Pius XII, and the supposed "popes" since then were actually antipopes, according to Catholic theology. According to Catholic theology, the Church has always the right to supply itself with the Pope.
Acting on the basis of this, Pope Michael was elected by six people (including himself, his own mother and father, a Mr. & Mrs. Robert Hunt, and a Mrs. Teresa Stanfill-Benns, who had been the main motivator of the Election) on July 16, 1990 in Belvue, Kansas, [[United States|USA]].
Mrs. Benns and Mr. David Bawden, who together summoned the assembly to elect the Pope in 1990, invited all orthodox Catholics to join, but none did, and they proceeded, as required by Catholic law and elected Bawden, who took the name Michael.
External links
- The Vatican-In-Exile
- [http://www.geocities.com/prakashjm45/index.html Michaelinum - The Catholic Resistance to the
Modernist Apostasy]