Leader of the Catholic Traditionalist Movement

Father GOMMAR A. DE PAUW, J.C.D., ordained a Roman Catholic priest in 1942, a veteran theologian and canon lawyer who participated in various capacities in the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, a frequent guest on radio and television programs, founder-president of the CATHOLIC TRADITIONALIST MOVEMENT, has been a contributor to such scholarly journals and publications as Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses. Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Dictionary of the Bible, and The New Catholic Encyclopedia. He is listed, among others, in Directory of American Scholars, Leaders of the English-Speaking World, Catholic Who's Who, Who's Who in Religion, Who's Who in America, and Who's Who in the World.

"Although he was born in Belgium (1918), arriving in New York in 1949 and becoming a U.S. citizen in 1955, the ancestors of Father De Pauw-a figure of major controversy in the Roman Catholic Church-include a line of early American settlers. Among them were Michael De Pauw, the first proprietor of what is now Staten Island, New York, and Charles De Pauw, an aide-de-camp to Lafayette during the American Revolution. DePauw University in Indiana was named after one of his grand-uncles.
Father De Pauw's rise to fame from relative obscurity as a professor of moral theology and canon law in Maryland grew out of a Manifesto stating the case for the Catholic Traditionalist Movement against recent church reforms."-NEW YORK TIMES, April 3, 1965

"Father De Pauw,...a brilliant speaker and manager of audiences....a spellbinder with professional technique, organizing his speech with the perfection and timing of a symphony."-WASHINGTON POST, July 17, 1966

"In the United States a Belgian-born theologian and Church lawyer, the Rev. Gommar A. De Pauw, founded the Catholic Traditionalist Movement in the mid-1960s. It now claims about 10,000 active 'fighters' and by admittedly loose estimates, an audience of up to 15 million Catholics who are traditionally oriented in their faith."-U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT, July 25, 1977