{"id":149977,"date":"2026-07-02T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/vatican-declares-traditionalist-society-in-schism-and-excommunicates-bishops\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T07:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T10:44:29","slug":"vatican-declares-traditionalist-society-in-schism-and-excommunicates-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubirataonline.com.br\/en\/vatican-declares-traditionalist-society-in-schism-and-excommunicates-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican declares traditionalist society in schism and excommunicates bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"

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VATICAN CITY (AP) \u2014 The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope\u2019s consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X<\/a><\/span> in schism, excommunicating its bishops and priests and warning its faithful they too face the harshest sanctions in the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n

The Vatican\u2019s doctrine office went above and beyond the minimum sanctions foreseen by the church\u2019s canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday<\/a><\/span> of four new bishops at the society\u2019s Econe, Switzerland, seminary.<\/p>\n

The society, known by its acronym SSPX, celebrates the ancient Latin Mass and opposes the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church, which it considers to be rife with heresies and errors. <\/p>\n

During a ritual-filled, five-hour Mass on Wednesday, attended by some 15,500 people and their children, the SSPX consecrated four new bishops in direct defiance of Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span>, who had urged the SSPX to hold off for the sake of the church\u2019s unity.<\/p>\n

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Newly consecrated Bishops, from left, Pascal Schreiber, Michael Goldade, Michel Poinsinet de Sivry and Marc Hanappier, wearing their miters and holding their pastoral staffs, pray at the end of their consecration ceremony in a tent set up outside the Society of St. Pius X seminary in Econe, Switzerland, Wednesday, July 1, 2026. (AP Photo\/Baz Ratner)<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/bsp-read-more><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n