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Sede Vacante: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thuc - Revised Edition

Sede Vacante: The Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thuc - Revised Edition

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Religious BiographiesReligion General General Political Science

ISBN13: 9798262777839
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 28 2018
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.33 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Sedevacantism, American Catholicism's only homegrown New Religious Movement (NRM), argues that the Church has sunk into heresy at the hands of false popes. Sedevacantists' estrangement from what they consider the errant post-Vatican Two Church left them in need of a sympathetic bishop. The only Catholic bishop ever to publicly adhere to Sedevacantism was Archbishop Ngo Dinh Thuc.

Thuc (1897-1984) was part of Vietnam's notorious political dynasty, the Ngo family. He was a CIA contact, a cunning businessman, and an apologist for his brothers' authoritarian regime. Exiled from Vietnam after the 1963 coup, Thuc became embroiled in a series of bizarre schemes and earned a rare double-excommunication before joining forces with the new hardline movement called Sedevacantism.

This book meticulously reconstructs the coming together of an extraordinary partnership - an exiled and disoriented Vietnamese archbishop and a so-called extreme traditionalist network of disaffected American Catholics. Amidst growing interest in traditionalist Catholicism and the Christian right in general, Thuc's legacy is even more relevant and impactful than in its heyday forty years ago.

***** Brilliant ... utterly fascinating ... Jarvis's narrative is almost unbelievable (Steve Wiggins, OUP)

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