- Patrick Henry Omlor
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Patrick Henry Omlor (born June 13, 1931) is an American Traditionalist Catholic author. He is most notable for his rejection of the Second Vatican Council, the Mass of Paul VI and for his contribution to the development of Sedevacantism.
Omlor was born in the United States of America[1] and later relocated to Western Australia.
He is best known for his 1967 book Questioning The Validity of the Masses using the New, All English Canon[2] and for a series of newsletters under the name Interdum (meaning, "Intermittent"). Omlor's works have been collected into a book called The Robber Church[3]
Omlor questions the validity of the form of consecration in the Mass of Paul VI. His argument centres around the replacement of the Latin "Pro Multis" ("for many") with the English "for all" in the rite of consecration, arguing that a deviation from the earlier wording resulted in the new Mass not constituting a proper sacrifice. Omlor disputes in detail the claim of the German bible scholar Joachim Jeremias that Aramaic did not have a word for "all" and so Jesus Christ used the word "many" with the meaning "all". However, Omlor disregards the less prominent position of the sequence in Easter rites of the Catholich Church and the fact that the "for all" merely appears in English translations of the new missal, which retained in the Latin (and various other languages) retained the words "Pro Multis".[4]
His rejection of the Second Vatican Council and the Mass of Paul VI, has led Omlor to a rejection of the legitimacy of all Popes after 1958, starting with John XXIII, making him a pioneers of Sedevacantism.[4]
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