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Joaqun Senz y Arriaga (Joaqun Senz Arriaga; October 12, 1899 April 28, 1976) was a Mexican Catholic priest and theologian. Jesuit from 1916 to 1952 he was later a harsh critic of the Second Vatican Council decisions and of the post-conciliar popes. He was declared excommunicated in 1972 by the Roman Catholic bishops' conference of Mexico. He is considered as the promoter of the sedevacantist ideas.

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Traditionalism

Fr. Joaqun Senz y Arriaga (Mexico City, March 1966)

As a young man Senz Arriaga was brought up in the spirit of the Cristero pressure group, Miguel Pro and other Catholic martyrs who fought against the Freemasonic and Communist government of Mexico in the 1920s, when some Catholics faced up to ring squads with the cry Viva Cristo Rey! ("Long live Christ the King!"). Senz y Arriaga placed great emphasis on the Catholic doctrine of the "Kingship of Christ", which militates against secularism and the separation of church and state. When the Vatican II reforms began to be implemented in Mexico and North America, it was Fr. Senz y Arriaga who led the ght against the so-called 'neo-modernists'. His uncompromising traditionalism led to a rejection of the "New Church" and he became the rst to propound the doctrine of sedevacantism, which maintains that, since the death of Pope Pius XII, there has been a sede vacante in Rome because the following popes espoused the heretical teachings of the Second Vatican Council.

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Fr. Senz y Arriaga later incorporated these ideas in his books La nueva iglesia montiniana (The new Montinian Church) (1971), and Sede Vacante: Paulo VI no es Papa legtimo (Sede Vacante: Paul VI is no longer a legitimate Pope) (1973). In these books he stated that Paul VI had forfeited his papal authority through public, pertinacious and manifest heresy, a position which he had reportedly held for some time. He was a catalyzing inuence on lay and clerical Catholic traditionalists who opposed the Vatican II reforms in Mexico and North America, persuading them to go independent, setting up independent chapels and churches and soliciting and procuring consecrations to create alternative lineages of bishops.

Excommunication

In reaction to his activities, the Mexican Cardinal Miranda ocially declared that Fr. Senz y Arriaga had incurred excommunication. In response, Fr. Moiss Carmona, his associate and disciple wrote:

Joaqun as a young seminarist in Barcelona in 1923.

They excommunicated you for your delity to Christ, His teachings and His Church. Blessed excommunication! As long as it is for this [1] reason, may all (such) excommunications come upon me!

In the 1970s Fr. Senz y Arriaga founded, together with Frs. Adolfo Zamora and Moiss Carmona, the Sociedad Sacerdotal Trento during which time he also advised American Catholic traditionalist recusants to form their own organizations, which resulted in the conservative Fr. Francis E. Fenton's founding of the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement.

Illness and death

According to his biographer, Antonio Rius-Facius, Fr. Senz died of prostate [2] cancer on April 28, 1976. In his last testament, written three days before his death, Senz y Arriaga wrote: "My life and all that is most precious to me I have sacriced for Christ, for the Church, and for the Papacy" and he added, "May the last cry of my soul be that of our Mexican martyrs Long live Christ the King! Long live the Virgin of [3] Guadalupe."

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After his death, Senz y Arriaga's work was continued by Frs. Adolfo Zamora and Moiss Carmona in Mexico; by Fr. Francis E. Fenton and his associates in the Orthodox Roman Catholic Movement, and Fr. Burton Fraser, S.J. in the United States. In today's Mexico (2007), the Senz movement as a traditionalist Catholic movement, is dead. However, sedevacantists of the Unin Catlica Trento still maintain several churches, chapels and one monastery.

References
Rius Facius, Antonio (1980). Excomulgado! [Excommunicated! - trajectory and thought of presbyter Dr. Joaqun Senz Arriaga]; Mxico: Costa Amic Editores (endnotes are taken from the 1983 edition).

Notes
1. ^ "A usted lo excomulgaron por su delidad a Cristo, a sus enseanzas, a su iglesia. Bendita excomunin! Como sea por eso, que me vengan todas las excomuniones" quoted in Rius-Facius, p. 155. 2. ^ See Rius-Facius, pp. 180-89. 3. ^ "Mi vida y todo lo ms precioso que ella pudiera tener para m la he sacricado por Cristo, por la Iglesia y por el Papado [...]. Que el ltimo suspiro de mi alma sea el de nuestros Mrtires mexicanos: Viva Cristo Rey, Viva la Virgen de Guadalupe!" - quoted in Rius-Facius, p. 185.

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