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What to know about breakaway traditionalist Catholics defying Pope Leo XIV

VATICAN CITY (AP) – The ultratraditionalist Society of St. Pius X is planning to defy Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent. The move incurs an automatic excommunication for the bishops involved, and amounts to a “schismatic act” – or a willful rupture of unity in the Catholic Church.

Traditionalists defy Pope Leo XIV and go ahead with planned consecrations

VATICAN CITY (AP) – With the threat of schism and excommunication hanging over them, a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics is set to directly defy Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent.

Pope issues plea to breakaway group to back off bishop consecrations

ROME (AP) – Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday issued a plea to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics to call off its plan to consecrate new bishops without his consent, describing the move as a schismatic act and a “sin of extreme gravity.”

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