Sedevacantism facts for kids

Sede vacante device, used by the Holy See from a pope's death or resignation to the election of his successor

Sedevacantism is the position, held by a small group of Traditionalist Catholics, that the person in the papal see right now is not truly pope and that, for lack of a good pope, the see has been empty since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. A tiny number of these people claim the vacancy actually goes back to the death of Pope Pius X in 1914, among other little-known positions.

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In Spanish: Sedevacantismo para niños