sedeprivationism

noun

The school of thought, in Roman Catholicism, that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations.

OriginLatin sede →
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Meanings

nounsedeprivationism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe school of thought, in Roman Catholicism, that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations.

    Father Gordon in the Conjuring films was based upon Bishop Robert McKenna, O.P. (1927-2015), a longtime associate of the Warrens and Tridentine Catholic who believed in sedeprivationism; that is to say that he only performed mass in[…]

    2021 July 1, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., The Conjuring, Liverpool University Press, →ISBN, page 57

Origin

  1. Latinsede
  2. Englishsedeprivationism

From Latin sede + prīvātō + -ism. Probably modelled on sedevacantism.

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Translations

French sédéprivationnisme
  • sédéprivationnismeThe school of thought that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations
German Sedisprivationismus
  • SedisprivationismusThe school of thought that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations
Italian sedeprivazionismo
  • sedeprivazionismoThe school of thought that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations
Polish sedeprywacjonizm
  • sedeprywacjonizmThe school of thought that the popes of the new religion of Vatican II council have been defective or deprived of the infallible teaching authority of the office because of their Modernist intent and remain in pope elect status until rencanting the innovations
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