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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.