Fatima Crusade
Upon hearing a Blue Army lecture given by Francis Schuckardt in 1965 in San Diego, he followed Schuckardt into the Blue Army to promote the message of Our Lady of Fatima.
In the wake of the Second Vatican Council and the New Rites of the church, Schuckardt began to speak out against the various doctrinal changes and liturgical reforms in the modern Catholic Church during his Blue Army lectures. Chicoine, along with Schuckardt, came to the conclusion that Pope Paul VI was a false pope. Chicoine and Schuckardt left the Blue Army in 1967 and Schuckardt founded a lay organization known as the Fatima Crusade in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. That same year, Schuckardt established order of sisters, brothers, and priests known as the Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen of the Universe (in Latin: Congregatio Mariae Reginae Immaculatae, abbreviated as CMRI) which Chicoine was a member as a religious lay brother.
Schuckardt and Chicoine began a national lecture circuit advocating a return to traditional Catholicism. Due to their outspoken rejection of the Second Vatican Council and embrace of Sedevacantism, they were denounced by the modern Catholic Church. Schuckardt ordained Chicoine to the priesthood on September 20, 1975 and created him vicar general.
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