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Topic: pope-leo

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Thursday, 7/2, 08:04 PM

Vatican excommunicates SSPX bishops in first crisis of Pope Leo's papacy

  • The Vatican declared six bishops of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X excommunicated on July 2, after the group consecrated four new bishops without papal permission — a defiant act that Rome said had placed the society in formal schism.
  • It is the sharpest rupture yet with the breakaway movement and the first major crisis of Pope Leo XIV's young pontificate.

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