Vatican issues final warning to breakaway traditionalist SSPX

Vatican issues final warning to breakaway traditionalist SSPX Pope Leo XIV on the day of his election reminds us that the Church, united in faith and service, is the living temple where God’s Spirit dwells. Photo: CNS/Vatican Media.

On May 13 the Vatican issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that their planned consecrations of bishops without papal consent constitutes a schismatic act that incurs automatic excommunication. Pope Leo XIV is praying for enlightenment so that the leaders of the Society of St Pius X “may reconsider the extremely…