Peter Tran Van Khoat is probably one of hte most interesting people surrounding the whole Siri affair. A search of this site will show that several pages are devoted to Fr. Khoat as he was originally known. Part of the name confusion comes from the Vietnamese tradition of placing the family name Tran Van before the given name Khoat. . This page will attempt to summarize what is now known and suspected about Fr. Khoat. We ask anyone with further information to contact us with additions and corrections. 1975 immigrates to the United States and is at Fort Chafee, Arkansas
1977 Lefebvre dedicates Tran Van Khoat's chapel, which is now a Buddhist temple.
Somtime in here Khoat becomes an American citizen and owns a dozen shrimp boats on behalf of his current parish, because they were not yet citizens. He also owns a Hotel in Port arthuc where Prostitutes work. (This he also owned on behalf of others.)
1980, May in Saint Marys, Kansas to meet with Marcel Lefebvre
1981, December 29, separates from any affiliation with the Society of Saint Pius X.
1981-2 works with a Brendan O'Keefe, who had been ordained by teh Orthodox on behalf of hte Traditionalists. O'Keefe had applied for admission to the SSPX, but they were slow to verify the validity of his Orders.
mid 1980's Buumon Buddhist Temple opens in Tran Van Khoat's old Church after the Vietnamese deserted him. 2701 Procter St, Port Arthur, TX 77640
Meets Bishop Peter Martin Ngo-Dihn Thuc, who he claims offered to consecrate him Bishop. He states he declined the offer.
Changes name to Fr. Khoat Tran.
1988 went to Italy to see Siri and Wojtyla and be present at the canonization of the Vietnamese Martyrs by Wojtyla. (June 19, 1988) Did he go to the consecrations at Econe on June 30? A train ticket indicates he was in Switzerland on this trip.
September 1988 receives Upon This Rock by Bawden, Benns, Dryden and others promoting a Papal Election. In October agrees this si a good idea if Siri cannot be persuaded to come forward and make a claim for the Papacy.
1989 has a picture of Karol Wojtyla as Pope John Paul II in his office
March 17, 1989 celebrates the Mass of the Friday in passion Week, instead of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This indicates acceptance of Angelo roncalli as Pope John XXIII.
March 22, 1989 tells David Bawden: I like the position of Archbishop Lefebvre in regard to the pope. Lefebvre's position was always that Karol Wojtyla was truly Pope.
March 28, 1989 denies the doctrine of infalliblity before several witnesses in a retreat he was giving.
May, 1990 receives a copy of Will the Catholic Church Survive the Twentieth Century? which proves that Angelo Roncalli was a hereitc prior to his apparent election in October of 1958.
June 3, 1990, claims Siri was Pope Gregory XVII for the first time and that the Cardinal Camerlengo has called for a Papal Election by Siri's secret Cardinals, thus indicating that he beleived the Papacy was vacant.
The Thuc Consecrations: A Postscript by Donald Sanborn, printed in Catholic Restoration. Objection 2. Abp. Thuc “went in and out of lucidity,” hence the consecrations are doubtful. The source of this story, it turns out, is a Vietnamese priest who claims he once met Abp. Thuc. This same priest also claims that Cardinal Siri was a “secret pope.’ And that Siri made him (the Vietnamese priest) a bishop and cardinal in a secret ceremony in the sacristy of a Genoa chapel where Siri had just celebrated the Novus Ordo. All this, no doubt, gave the priest unimpeachable qualifications for judging other people’s “lucidity” …Is this Vietnamese priest Fr. Peter Tran Van Khoat?
May 20, 2006: "Now I remember the words spoken by Our Lord to Thomas: 'Blessed those who do not see it but believe it', applied in our time. Blessed to you because you accept the historical fact that the White smoke from the chapel Sistine at 5:00 p.m on October 26, 1958, announced the "Habemus Papam" who was Cardinal Giuseppe Siri elected Pope Gregory XVII but the power of Darkness stopped him to run his papacy for 30 years, 6 months and 6 days in the public, except 10 months and 16 days he actually ran the papacy from the secrecy. Why 10 months and 16 days? This was the days counting from day I met him on June 14, 1988 to the day he passed away on May 2, 1989. Gradually, the people of the world realize that Pope Gregory XVII (Siri) and his successors are true popes of the Roman Catholic Church and John XXIII (Roncalli) and his successors are Anti-pope of the Roman Catholic Church. ... From the day I met Pope Gregory XVII, I loved him. Therefore, I wish even we are handful of his follower, we love him, pray for him, and pray for the Roman Catholic Church." -The Rev. Fr. Peter Khoat Van Tran (Hand-typed statement, May 20th, 2006 A.D.)
