Michel Louis Guérard des Lauriers, O.P. (1898 - 1988) was a Dominican theologian. 1898 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Theology is literally rational discourse concerning God (Greek θεος, theos, God, + λογος, logos, rational discourse). By extension, it also refers to the study of other religious topics. ...

He entered the Dominican novitiate in 1926 and was ordained a priest in 1931. He became a professor of philosophy at the Dominican university of Le Saulchoir in Belgium in 1933. Under Pope Pius XII Des Lauriers served as a professor at the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome. In 1950 he was an important advisor to Pius XII on the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. With the advent of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960’s, des Lauriers became concerned with the direction the church was taking. In 1969 he co-authored the Ottaviani Intervention which was a critical study of the new Mass. A novitiate (also called a novice) is a member of a religious order who has not yet taken his/her vows. ... Roman Catholic priest LCDR Allen R. Kuss (USN) aboard USS Enterprise A priest or priestess is a holy man or woman who takes an officiating role in worship of any religion, with the distinguishing characteristic of offering sacrifices. ... 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Pope Pius XII (Latin: ), born Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli (March 2, 1876 – October 9, 1958), reigned as Pope of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from March 2, 1939 to 1958. ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Dogma (the plural is either dogmata or dogmas) is belief or doctrine held by a religion or any kind of organization to be authoritative. ... The Assumption has been a subject of Christian art for centuries According to Roman Catholic theology and the traditions of the Roman Catholic Church, the body and soul of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mary, the mother of Jesus) was taken into Heaven after the end of her earthly life. ... The Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, was an Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church opened under Pope John XXIII in 1962 and closed under Pope Paul VI in 1965. ... 1969 (MCMLXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday For other uses, see Number 1969. ... The Ottaviani Intervention was a letter written by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani to Pope Paul VI warning him against the implementation of the Novus Ordo Mass Text of The Ottaviani Intervention Categories: Catholic-related stubs | Second Vatican Council | Catholic Traditionalism ... Then-Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) presiding over the 2005 Easter Vigil Mass at St. ...

He became a lecturer at Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre’s St. Pius X seminary in Ecône, Switzerland. He then presented his thesis that the Chair of Peter was vacant because Pope Paul VI was guilty of heresy, known as sedevacantism. Because of this view, Lefebvre removed des Lauriers from his teaching post in 1977. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of Saint Pius X. Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre (November 29, 1905–March 25, 1991) was a leading Catholic who opposed the reforms of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65), especially in matters of ecumenism, collegiality, the revision of the then existing Roman Missal, and... His Excellency Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, founder of the Society of Saint Pius X. The Society of St. ... The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Chicago preaches from his cathedra, placed in front of the altar on special occasions. ... Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ... Sede vacante Coat of Arms, used when there is no reigning pope. ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ...

He further developed his beliefs on the current state of the papacy, relying on St. Cajetan and St. Robert Bellarmine, arguing that Pope Paul VI, as a result of his heresy, was only pope materially and not formally, known was the Cassiciacum Thesis, thus founding the Sedeprivationist school of Traditionalist Catholicism. Thomas Cajetan (cajê-tan or caje-tan) was an Italian cardinal who was born at Gaeta on February 20, 1469; died at Rome on August 9, 1534. ... Roberto Francesco Romolo Cardinal Bellarmino (Saint Robert Bellarmine), a Saint and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and a controversialist, was born at Montepulciano in Tuscany, Italy, October 4, 1542; died in Rome September 17, 1621. ... Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ... Sedeprivationism is an ideological school or party of the Traditionalist Catholic movement that follows the principles of the late French theologian Michel Louis Guérard des Lauriers, O.P., as Lauriers set it out in his thesis published in the Cahiers du Cassiciacum and therefore called the Cassiciacum thesis. According... Sedeprivationism is an ideological school or party of the Traditionalist Catholic movement that follows the principles of the late French theologian Michel Louis Guérard des Lauriers, O.P., as Lauriers set it out in his thesis published in the Cahiers du Cassiciacum and therefore called the Cassiciacum thesis. According... Traditionalist Catholic and Traditional Catholic are broad terms used to denote Roman Catholics who reject some or all of the reforms that were instituted after the Second Vatican Council, in particular the revised rite of Mass, which was promulgated in 1969 by Pope Paul VI as part of the process...

Des Lauriers further believed that the new rites of ordination promulgated by Pope Paul VI were doubtfully valid and therefore it was necessary to take action to secure a valid succession of bishops for the Catholic Church. He began discussions with Dr. Eberhard Heller and Dr. Hiller, German sedevacantist activists who were harboring Ngô Ðình Thuc Pierre Martin (1897-1985), the former archbishop of Hue, Vietnam, and after he agreed to abate his Sedeprivationism and adhere to Sedevacantism, it was agreed that Ngo Dinh Thuc would consecrate him as a bishop. Pope Paul VI (Latin: ), born Giovanni Battista Enrico Antonio Maria Montini (September 26, 1897 – August 6, 1978), reigned as Pope and as sovereign of Vatican City from 1963 to 1978. ... In Christianity, the doctrine of apostolic succession (or the belief that the Church is apostolic) maintains that the Christian Church today is the spiritual successor of the Church of the Apostles. ... The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the Christian Church whose visible and spiritual head on Earth (representing Jesus Christ) is the Pope, currently Pope Benedict XVI, and whose adherents constitute almost half of all Christians worldwide. ... Sedevacantism is the belief that since the time of Pope John XXIII, who called the Second Vatican Council in the early 1960s, the office of pope of the Roman Catholic Church is not legitimately held by the persons widely acknowledged as pope, sitting in the Vatican. ... Archbishop Ngô Đình Thuc Pierre Martin Archbishop Ngô Đình Thuc Pierre Martin (吴廷俶) (approximately pronounced Ngoh Din Took ) (October 6, 1897–December 13, 1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hué, Vietnam, was born in Hué, on October 6, 1897, of Catholic parents. ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the year. ... For the city in Vietnam, see Huế A hue refers to the gradation of color within the optical spectrum, or visible spectrum, of light. ...

Accordingly, on May 7, 1981, Des Lauriers was consecrated bishop by Ngo Dinh Thuc in Toulon, France. Shortly after, Des Lauriers reiterated his Sedeprivationism and commenced a polemical war with the Sedevacantists, including Ngo Dinh Thuc and the Drs. Heller and Hiller. May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Location within France Coat of Arms of Toulon Toulon (Tolon in Provençal) is a city in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. ...

Des Lauriers went on to ordain and consecrate Sedeprivationist priests and bishops, none of whom, however, possessed the same intellectual stature or energy in propagating Sedeprivationism that he did.

Des Lauriers died in Etiolles, France, in 1988 at the age of 90. 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

The episcopate is the status of a bishop. ... Archbishop Ngô Đình Thuc Pierre Martin Archbishop Ngô Đình Thuc Pierre Martin (吴廷俶) (approximately pronounced Ngoh Din Took ) (October 6, 1897–December 13, 1984), Roman Catholic Archbishop of Hué, Vietnam, was born in Hué, on October 6, 1897, of Catholic parents. ... May 7 is the 127th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (128th in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Gunther Storck (died 1993) was a traditionalist Catholic bishop from Munich, Germany. ... April 30 is the 120th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (121st in leap years), with 245 days remaining, as the last day in April. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) is a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Most Reverend Robert Fidelis McKenna, O.P. (1927 - ) is a sedevacantist Dominican order bishop residing in Monroe, Connecticut. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Franco Munari is a traditionalist Catholic bishop. ... November 25 is the 329th (in leap years the 330th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance About this WikiProject Purpose The WikiProject Dictionary of the Catholic Resistance has been created in order to describe the various factions, schools or parties associated with various Catholic movements, in order to facilitate better understanding of concepts and beliefs. ...