Richard Ibranyi

Richard Joseph Michael Ibranyi is a Catholic activist and preacher who lives in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. He is not a well known figure among Catholics, largely due to his controversial views on topics like salvation, Apocalypse, and the Holocaust.
Biography
Richard Ibranyi was born in Newark, New Jersey. He attended St. Benedict's Preparatory School, of which he is very critical of. He grew up in a self-professed Catholic family. As he became more religious in later years of his life, he moved to Most Holy Family Monastery in Fillmore, New York. Richard eventually adopted sedevecantist position, which pitted him against his superior, Michael Dimond. It is for this reason, Ibranyi claims, that he was kicked out of the monastery. He then moved to Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, where he started a lay religious order named Mary's Little Remnant.
Doctrine
Richard Ibranyi is a very traditional Catholic who denounces the modern innovations in the Church. He promotes very strict adherence to dogmas, leaving no room for interpretations that deviate from tradition. He is one of the most rigorous proponents of Catholic dogma, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. He does not recognize the Second Vatican Council, and believes all Popes and bishops who signed its decrees automatically lost their office.
Where he differs from Most Holy Family Monastery and most other sedevacantists, is his unique teaching on Great Apostasy. Most sedevacantists believe the Great Apostasy began with the Second Vatican Council, Ibranyi believes it began in the 13th century. He believes Satan was released from his prison in 1346, and that the Black Death was a sign of his release. Richard believes that resurrection and glorification of philosophy, in the form of scholasticism, led to the Great Apostasy and the unchaining of Satan. Unlike most Catholic Traditionalists, who revere Thomas Aquinas as a Doctor of the Church, Ibranyi condemns him as a heretic and one of the most evil people who ever lived. He believes resurrection and glorification of mythology, and the subsequent Renaissance, are the result of scholasticism. In addition, he claims there was no real Pope from at least 1445, and hence rejects the Council of Florence, Fifth Lateran Council, Council of Trent, First Vatican Council, and the Second Vatican Council as null and void.
Like many other traditionalists, he denies the Jewish Holocaust and even is sympathetic towards Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party in his book, "Woe To You Who Call Evil Good!". Nevertheless, Ibranyi rejects the claim that he is an antisemite. Ibranyi says he is against Judaism and Zionism, and not the Jewish race, as he himself is a racial Jew. Richard is also very critical of the State of Israel, and says Jews have no right of possession of the Holy Land. He believes Israel is the abomination of desolation prophesied by Jesus, and that the Antichrist will be Jewish.

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