Sedevacantism Sedevacantism is the position held by a minority of Traditionalist Catholics who claim that the Papal See has been vacant since either the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958 or Pope John XXIII in 1963.Sedevacantists believe that Paul VI (1963–1978), John Paul I (1978), John Paul II (1978–2005) and Benedict XVI (since 2005) have been neither true Catholics nor true popes, by virtue of allegedly having espoused the heresy of Modernism, or of having otherwise denied or contradicted solemnly defined Catholic dogmas. Sedevacantism
Society of St. Pius V Society of St. Pius V (Societas Sacerdotalis Sancti Pii Quinti or SSPV) is a society of validly ordained priests asserting to be Roman Catholic, formed in 1983 and based in Oyster Bay Cove, New York. On disciplinary grounds, the Catholic Church considers the Society's status to be as canonically irregular as that of the Society of St. Society_of_St._Pius_V
Clarence Kelly Bishop Clarence Kelly, a Traditionalist Catholic bishop, was born in 1941. He was ordained a priest on April 13, 1973 at Ecône, Switzerland by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre for the Roman Catholic Society of St. Pius X.Kelly eventually became Superior of the Society in the United States. Clarence_Kelly