Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Francisco Radecki and Dominic Radecki (Sedevacantists) vs. the Siri Thesis

  

The Cardinal Siri Controversy

 

One explanation of the white/black some and irregularities of the 1958 papal election may have been due to Cardinal Siri being elected on an early ballot. If this was the case, he must have refused the office; otherwise the conclave would not have continued.

 

Although stories have circulated that he and his family and/or Catholics in Communist countries were threatened if he accepted the papacy, once one refuses the papal office, he is not the pope. In addition, Siri made no public statement proclaiming that he was pope.

 

Siri took part in the papal conclaves of 1958, 1963 and two in 1978. On November 1, 1958, Cardinal Siri gave public obeisance to John XXIII saying, “I have called you together to think God for the election of our Holy Father, John XXIII.” (The original speech is posted on the Cardinal Siri website, maintained by a group of Genovese scholars who published a book on the late Archbishop. [Associazione Cultural Cardinal Siri]) He acknowledged Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II as popes. Additionally, he never said he was pope and never wore papal attire. Siri certainly was not a traditionalist as claimed by his followers. He offered the New Mass and confected the New Sacraments. Since Siri was never pope, he could not make cardinals. (Francisco Radecki and Dominic Radecki, Vatican II Exposed as Counterfeit Catholicism [Wayne, Mich.: St. Joseph’s Media, 2019], 206-7)

 

For more, see the section “The Siri Theory” in the following from John Salza and Robert Siscoe, taken from their book, True or False Pope: Refuting Sedevacantism and Other Modern Errors.