In my ongoing studies of alternative popes, that is, people who claim that they, not the vastly more recognized man in Rome, are the pontiff, I have also encountered a few people who, based on private apparitions, claim they are destined to become the pope sometime in the future. They are alternative popes in the making. One of them was Hungarian-German Franz Engelhardt, who did so from the early 1970s onward. Another is Australian William Kamm, better known as Little Pebble, who in the 1980s began to claim to be the future Petrus Romanus, the pope of the end times.

A third person who claimed a future papacy from the late 1980s or early 1990s onward was Gary Michael McLaughlin (1950-2023). He was a traditionalist independent Catholic priest known by many aliases: Father Jean Claude Joseph, Father Peter, Brother Michael O’Connell, and, most prominently, Father X.

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