1+ hour ago  (469+ words) Four new bishops from a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass were ordained in southwestern Switzerland on Wednesday, in defiance of an appeal by Pope Leo XIV. Thousands "turned out to watch the ordination of the bishops from…...

42+ min ago  (377+ words) The Vatican has pronounced a decree of excommunication against adherents of a traditionalist group, the members of which adhere to the Latin Mass and other practices that were common to the Church prior to modernizing changes introduced in the 1960s. He…...

41+ min ago  (991+ words) Right now, yours goes twice as far. Give now to help PBS News start our new fiscal year strong. By declaring a schism and extending excommunications to potentially thousands of Catholics, the Vatican's doctrine office went above and beyond the…...

4+ hour, 25+ min ago  (949+ words) By declaring a schism and extending excommunications to potentially thousands of Catholics, the Vatican's doctrine office went above and beyond the minimum sanctions foreseen by the church's canon law to respond to the consecrations Wednesday of four new bishops. The…...

49+ min ago  (1214+ words) (OSV'News) " The Vatican has declared the Society of St. Pius X to be "in schism" after the traditionalist group consecrated four bishops without the papal mandate, marking the most serious rupture in the Church since Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's unauthorized episcopal…...

3+ hour, 57+ min ago  (665+ words) 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…...

49+ min ago  (604+ words) The Vatican, as widely expected, issued on July 2 an unequivocal decree declaring that six bishops of the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X involved in the episcopal ordination ceremony in Switzerland yesterday are in schism and automatically excommunicated. Today's Vatican…...

1+ hour, 46+ min ago  (751+ words) VATICAN CITY, July 2 (Reuters) " Pope Leo said during his inaugural Mass last year that he would seek to unify the Catholic Church after years of fraught divisions and vowed he would not rule like an "autocrat" over its 1. 4 billion members....

1+ hour, 16+ min ago  (794+ words) More than half a million Christians who are part of a conservative Catholic splinter sect, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), have been excommunicated by the Vatican. On Wednesday the sect, named after Pope Pius X known for his…...

2+ hour, 43+ min ago  (990+ words) The Holy See confirmed the excommunication of six bishops of the Society of St Pius X involved in episcopal consecrations without a papal mandate. Bishop Alfonso de Galarreta conducted the consecration during a six-hour liturgy on Wednesday in the society's…...