Annuntio vobis Gaudium magnum. Habemus Papam. Reverdissimum Patrem Lucianum Pulvermacher, OFM Cap., Sanctae Catholicae Ecclesiae Presbyterem.
On October 24, 1998, white smoke appeared from the chimney of a small house in Montana. It was the signal that a new pope was elected. According to those present, the event ended a forty-year interregnum when the Catholic Church lacked a true leader. To them, there had been imposters on the Holy See ever since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958.
The pope elected in Montana was the Capuchin priest Lucian Pulvermacher (1918–2009), who had left the ‘Novus Ordo church’ in 1976, becoming a sedevacantist. He took Pius XIII as his papal name, leading the true Catholic Church. Officially, ‘true’ should always be written in lowercase, as the Church Pius XIII led was nothing but the one Catholic Church, now in exile. Over fifty persons participated in the conclave. Apart from Pulvermacher, they were all laypeople, and most electors were not present but called or sent in their ballots.
For the research report
For a collection of papal documents, see
Magnus Lundberg 
I have not yet had time to read the working paper. From what I have read on line, Bateman died reconciled with the Society of St Pius X. I do not know if he married.
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Bateman had children before the conclave, and in his autobiographical note signed in 1998, he states that he prayed for his wife’s conversion. I guess they were separated when Bateman was ordained and consecrated the matter was not discussed. When a married man, Robert Lyons became a priest in 2000 Pulvermacher ordained him in the Melchite rite, though he could say Mass according to the Roman rite, too. When leaving Pius XIII in 2002, Bateman attempted to organize a new conclave, which did not materialize. He died in 2009 and I don’t have any post-2002 info on him. For his autobiographical note, see https://truecarpentry.org/tccwww/cathwww/zapostolic/cv-batemangordon.htm
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How sad that Gordon Bateman after so many battles even left Pius XIII. The reference in his biography to Ken is Ken Mock who was a very active Conclavist in the USA. I know nothing more about him. I do not know who Fr Adam is or was. I view Bateman’s position on Vatican II baptisms as wrong. As long as the words are correct and water used they are valid. From memory,Rome has always accepted Anglican baptisms as valid. Even a lay person can perform emergency baptism.What is not valid is the creeping trend to use this formula “I baptise you in the name of the Creator, the Saviour and the Sanctifier’. Indeed, a priest in Arizona two years ago had to re-baptise many people as he had used such a formula. He was then given a ‘desk job’ in the bishop’s ofice.
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In principle the Catholic Church accepted Protestant baptisms long before Vatican II, but I guess it was common to baptize conditionally. But the Council of Trent decreed: “If anyone says that the baptism which is given by heretics in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit with the intention of doing what the Church does, is not true baptism, let him be anathema.”
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Yes, Kenneth Mock was involved in all three conclaves in the 1990s, but changed his mind just before the elections. I haven’t found anything about him. And I know virtually nothing about Hermann Adam.
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There was a priest in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden who was a vicar for about four decades on the countryside close to where I live. He died in the early 1960s and was known to baptize in the name of whatever he felt like. That meant that his successors had to baptize adult parishioners (at least sub conditione) well into the 1980s or 1990s.
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Is the Author aware of another papal claimant – the much titled bishop Rutherford Johnson of the United Roman-Ruthenian Church?
https://statopontifico.org
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Yes, I am. I must confess that I wondered if it was a joke, but it isn’t. However, many of the photos seem photoshopped and many other photos have nothing to do with his church.
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