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“VATICAN CITY — The Vatican responded aggressively Thursday to a traditionalist
society that consecrated bishops without the pope's consent, declaring the
Society of St. Pius X in schism, excommunicating its bishops and priests and
warning its faithful they too face the harshest sanctions in the Catholic
Church.
The Vatican's doctrine office went above and beyond the minimal sanctions
foreseen by the church's canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday of
four new bishops at the society's Econe, Switzerland, seminary.
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 and has accused of straying from the Catholic
faith.
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, who had urged the SSPX to hold off for the sake of
the church's unity.
In a decree, the Vatican excommunicated the four new bishops and the two
bishops who participated in the ceremony. It declared the consecrations a
"schismatic act" and declared the society itself had created a schism, or
intentional rupture with the Catholic Church.
The Vatican warned the faithful who go to the society's Masses to stop,
declaring "those who adhere formally" to the society are considered themselves
schismatic and excommunicated. It declared SSPX priests to be schismatic, and
therefore excommunicated, and invalidated the sacraments of confession and
marriage that they administer.”
Via Susan ***, who wrote "FAFO: Catholic edition"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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