What is Sedevacantism?
[[File:Sede vacante.svg|thumb|right|150px|[[Sede vacante]] device, used by the [[Holy See]] from a pope's death or resignation to the election of his successor]] '''Sedevacantism''' is the position, held by a small group of [[Traditionalist Catholics]],<ref name=IUP>{{Citation | first = R. Scott | last = Appleby | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=yUqp1_31B-MC&dq=sedevacantist+traditionalist+catholic&pg=PA257 | title = Being Right: Conservative Catholics in America | publisher = Indiana University Press | year = 1995 | isbn = 978-0-253-32922-6 | page = 257}}.</ref><ref name=UCP>{{Citation | first1 = Martin E | last1 = Marty | author1-link = Martin E. Marty | first2 = R. Scott | last2 = Appleby | author2-link = R. Scott Appleby | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=qd5yzP5hdiEC&dq=sedevacantist+traditionalist+catholic&pg=PA88 | title = Fundamentalisms Observed | publisher = University of Chicago Press | year = 1994 | isbn = 978-0-226-50878-8 | page = 88}}.</ref> that the person in the [[Holy See|papal see]] right now is not truly pope and that, for lack of a catholic pope, the [[episcopal see|see]] has been empty since the death of [[Pope Pius XII]] in 1958. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Catholicism]]