Gommar DePauw
Gommar A. DePauw (11 October 1918 – 6 May 2005) was a Belgian-American traditionalist Catholic priest and founder of an organization that he called the Catholic Traditionalist Movement.[1]
Gommar DePauw | |
|---|---|
| Born | 11 October 1918 |
| Died | 6 May 2005 |
| Alma mater | Catholic University of Leuven |
Education and career
From 1952 to 1963 DePauw taught canon law at Mount Saint Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland. In 1955 he requested and was granted incardination from the Diocese of Ghent to the Archdiocese of Baltimore and was named academic dean of the seminary.[2]
In January 1966 after the attempted transfer from Baltimore to Tivoli became public, Cardinal Shehan said that the transfer was never legally completed and that DePauw was still a priest incardinated in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In order to excardinate and incardinate, a priest must request excardination of his bishop, and it must be granted. As Cardinal Shehan was following the universal law of the Church, the Bishop of Tivoli supported Cardinal Shehan. Shehan suspended DePauw from his priestly functions.[2]
On 23 June 1968 DePauw established the Ave Maria Chapel in Westbury, Long Island.[2]
Bibliography
- Conciliar or Catholic, 1967 lecture by DePauw
- The Educational Rights of the Church and Elementary Schools in Belgium, DePauw's book from Catholic University of America Press
References
Further reading
- Marcello, Albert (28 August 2020). "Reclaiming a Lost Voice in Catholic Moral Theology: Who Was Fr. Gommar DePauw?". Homiletic & Pastoral Review. Retrieved 26 April 2023.