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William Kamm, also known as The Little Pebble(born Cologne, Germany, 1950; currently living in Australia), is the leader of a religious group called the Order of St Charbel,[1] which claims however to be part of the Roman Catholic Church and due to be approved by the hierarchy. The Holy See does not regard the group as being part of Roman Catholicism.[citation needed]
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[edit]Illegal episcopal ordination
Kamm's order is sacramentally cared for by a former diocesan parish priest from Texas, Malcolm Broussard, who in 2003 was consecrated a bishop in Bavaria. This episcopal ordination was not authorised by the Roman Catholic Church and resulted in his automatic excommunication.[2] Broussard had already been suspended, on 20 September 1989, for abandoning his priestly assignment and was not a priest "in good standing".[3] Broussard has ordained many of the men in the group to the priesthood, most of them not taking the traditional promise of clerical celibacy. He ordained Kamm as a deacon in 2003.[citation needed]
[edit]Rejection of priestly celibacy
Kamm claims the Latin Rite rules of obligatory celibacy do not apply to him, not even if finally declared "pope" sometime in the future; nor does it apply to the priests of his order. His critics[who?] say that this rejection of normative church discipline proves the illegitimate and fraudulent nature of his revelations and religious order.
[edit]sɛҳuąƖ assault: polygamy and mystical marriages
In October 14th 2005, Kamm was sentenced[citation needed] to five years in prison with a non-parole period of three-and-a-half years for a string of sɛҳuąƖ attacks including aggravated sɛҳuąƖ assault on a 15-year-old girl. He claimed that she was one of his 84 mystical wives.[citation needed]
The assaults occurred when the girl was living within Kamm's Order of St Charbel, a community (living in a compound) near Nowra, New South Wales.
Kamm claimed to have received advice from the Blessed Virgin Mary that the girl should be chosen as one of 12 queens and 72 princesses who would all become his wives, with whom he would spawn a new human race after the world was cleansed and burnt by a ball of fire.[4] Kamm himself continues to defend his polygamy, claiming to believe that Mary has instituted him to be the "new Abraham" spawning a numerous people.[citation needed]
Kamm's letters and diary entries to the 15-year-old girl, which were made public during the court session, display an explicit sɛҳuąƖ style and were major evidence in his prosecution.[5]
Kamm was also found guilty in May 2007 of aggravated sɛҳuąƖ assault and aggravated indecent assault in relation to another 15 year old girl. In August 2007, after losing an appeal on his original sentence, Kamm was resentenced to a total of 15 years imprisonment with a non-parole period of 11 years. He is due to become eligible for release on parole on 13 April 2013.[6]
[edit]Nature of prophecies
He has declared, that he will take the name "Pope Peter II" as a future pretender to the Holy See[citation needed]; as such he is a future antipope. He was also noted for a series of unusual "prophecies" which were never fulfilled (including the start of World War III). Kamm claimed that Pope John Paul II, who remains widely venerated throughout Kamm's movement, would consecrate Kamm a bishop and appoint him as his official and sole successor to the papacy. When this prophecy was unfulfilled on Pope John Paul's death in 2005, Kamm quickly issued a press statement, saying "heaven clearly changed its plans" and declaring, that they would accept Pope Benedict XVI as legitimate Roman Pontiff. They claim prophecies have changed and stated that Kamm is to be the successor to Benedict XVI, instead of to John Paul II as previously claimed. One of Kamm's claims is that Pope John Paul II will rise from the dead and reappear on the surface of the world again to fight evil along with Benedict XVI, and possibly to appoint Kamm.[7]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kamm
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