Editing Sedevacantism (section)

==History==
===Early sedevacantism: origins in the 1960s===
[[File:Padre Saenz (2).jpg|thumb|right|200px|The Mexican Jesuit priest, Fr. [[Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga]], longtime associate of ''[[Los TECOS]]'', was one of the pioneers of sedevacantism after the [[Second Vatican Council]].]]
Sedevacantism, ''avant la lettre'', is evidenced from the mid-1960s, as part of a response to the [[Second Vatican Council]] in the [[Roman Catholic Church]]. The earliest example is from a group of [[traditionalist Catholics]] in Mexico associated with the radical right secret society ''[[Los TECOS]]'' based in [[Guadalajara]], in particular their spiritual director, Fr. [[Joaquín Sáenz y Arriaga]], a Jesuit priest, the main figure associated with presenting this.<ref name="falsas">{{Cite web|last=Herrán Ávila|first=Luis|date=2022|title=Las Falsas Derechas: Conflict and Convergence in Mexico's Post-Cristero Right after the Second Vatican Council|url=https://www.pliniocorreadeoliveira.info/TD_202204_Mexico_falsas_derechas.pdf|access-date=2025-01-29|website=The Americas 79(2): 321–50|language=}}</ref> In 1965, at a private meeting in the house of Anacleto González Guerrero (son of the ''Cristero'' martyr [[Anacleto González Flores]]), ''Los TECOS'' leaders proposed the motion that  [[Paul VI]] (Giovanni Montini) was a crypto-Jew and an illegitimate Pope, and that this line should be officially adopted as the position of Mexican traditionalists.<ref name="split">{{Cite web|last=González|first=Fernando M|date=2007|title=Algunos grupos radicales de izquierda y de derecha con influencia católica en México (1965-1975)|url=https://www.redalyc.org/pdf/589/58922909003.pdf|access-date=2025-01-29|website=Historia y Grafía, 29, 57-93|language=es}}</ref> A connected secret society, based in [[Puebla]] under Ramón Plata Moreno, known as ''[[El Yunque (organization)|El Yunque]]'', although ultra-conservative as well and unhappy about the liberalising changes in the Catholic world, rejected the proposal, stating that Pope Paul VI was indeed the legitimate Pope of the Catholic Church. This led to a deadly split in the Mexican traditionalist scene.<ref name="split"/> Earlier, during the Second Vatican Council, ''Los TECOS'' had distributed the document entitled ''Il Complotto contro la Chiesa'' ("The Plot Against the Church") under the pseudonym of Maurice Pinay, warning Council fathers of a supposed “Judeo-Masonic-Communist” plot to infiltrate and destroy Christianity and the Catholic Church.{{sfn|Anderson|1986|p=75}}

Another early expositor from Latin America was [[:es:Carlos Alberto Disandro|Carlos Alberto Disandro]] in Argentina, a personal associate of [[Juan Perón]], belonging to the Catholic wing of [[orthodox Peronism]], who raised the question in 1969 with his book ''Pontificado y Pontífice: una breve quaestio teológica''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Carnagui|first=Juan Luis|date=2011|title=Historias de vida y trayectorias personales: un recorrido de militancia en la Concentración Nacional Universitaria (CNU) 1955-1976|url=https://historiapolitica.com/datos/biblioteca/6jornadas/carnagui_jvi.pdf|access-date=2025-01-29|website=VI Jornadas de Historia Política. Argentina, siglos XIX y XX|language=es}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bosca|first=Roberto|date=2013|title=Un Caballo de Troya en la ciudad de Dios|url=https://www.lanacion.com.ar/opinion/miradas/un-caballo-de-troya-en-la-ciudad-de-dios-nid1558921/|access-date=2025-01-29|website=La Nacion|language=es}}</ref>