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Pope begins his summer break after decisive flexing of muscle
Pope marks July 4 by praying for migrants who died seeking freedom
Pope urges US to recommit to founding ideas of protecting life, human dignity
Vatican excommunicates schismatic bishops and priests, and warns their followers
Defying Pope Leo XIV, traditionalists go ahead with Latin Mass consecrations
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.
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.
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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