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Thursday, 7/2, 11:44 AM

Vatican Excommunicates Breakaway Traditionalist Bishops After Defiant Ordinations

  • The Society of St.
  • Pius X, an ultratraditionalist Catholic movement, ordained four new bishops in Switzerland without the pope's approval — a defiant act that, under church law, brought automatic excommunication and deepened the group's rupture with Rome.
  • The Vatican, which had warned against the ceremony, declared it a schismatic act.

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