Vatican excommunicates all members of ultra-conservative rebel group SSPX
by Angela Giuffrida in Rome from on (#76QBF)
Schism caused by Society of Saint Pius X ordaining four bishops without consent presents first crisis for Pope Leo
The Vatican has excommunicated a rebel group of ultra-conservative Catholics who defied Pope Leo by ordaining bishops without his consent, creating a schism in the Roman Catholic church.
In a statement on Thursday, Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernandez, who heads the Holy See's Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, said the group from the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), founded in the Swiss village of Econe in 1970, had committed an act of a schismatic nature" which, under canon law, was punishable with automatic excommunication.
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