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I am always interested in sedevacantists. They are Catholics who believe that the Popes since around Vatican II and Pius XII (occasionally earlier or later) have been false Popes due to the modernist heresies they believe they embrace. I occasionally listen to a podcast of their's tradcast and I have always felt that if I was a Catholic I would find many of their arguments very convincing. How could they be made more significant and numerous" I Could they all managed to unite and appoint a Pope of their own with popularity comparable to the "novos ordos" one? Maybe if a Cardinal appointed by Pius XII defected they could hold a conclave of their own.
If there was a catholic group of considerable size denying the legitimacy of the Popes how might this effect things? It has occurred to me that if they managed to draw off a significant number of the more traditional Catholics it might result in the mainline Catholic Church lurching further in a liberal direction? Or it might be forced to stay more conservative? Where might they be most popular?
In our time the sedevacatists seem to have received a bit of a boost since the abuse scandals and Pope Francis's more liberal turn (which are not seen as unrelated by the sedevacantists). If this was larger scale and if a full scale Church unaffected by these issues existed there might be significant defections.