Patrick Henry Omlor

Who is Patrick Henry Omlor?

Patrick Henry Omlor was an American Traditionalist Catholic author. He was most notable for his rejection of the Second Vatican Council, the Mass of Paul VI and for his contribution to the development of Sedevacantism. He was born in the United States of America and later relocated to Western Australia.

He was best known for his 1967 book Questioning The Validity of the Masses using the New, All English Canon and for a series of newsletters under the name Interdum. Omlor's works have been collected into a book called The Robber Church. Omlor questioned the validity of the form of consecration in the Mass of Paul VI. His argument centred around the replacement of the Latin "Pro multis" with the English "for all" in the rite of consecration, arguing that a deviation from the earlier wording resulted in the new Mass not constituting a proper sacrifice.

Omlor disputed the claim of German biblical scholar Joachim Jeremias that Aramaic did not have a word for "all" and so Jesus Christ used the word "many" with the meaning "all". However, he disregarded the less prominent position of the sequence in Easter rites of the Catholic Church.