The Vatican says bishops from the ultra-conservative Catholic SSPX society were automatically excommunicated after ignoring ...

Pope Leo XIV excommunicates Society of St. Pius X bishops after unauthorized consecrations, declaring the traditionalist ...

The Vatican announced Thursday that priests and members of a breakaway Catholic group that ordained four new bishops in ...

Catholic rebels are set to defy Pope Leo XIV by proceeding with bishop consecrations that could trigger excommunication.

The Society of St. Pius X, a traditionalist Catholic group, consecrated four bishops in a ceremony Wednesday without the ...

An impending clash between Pope Leo and ultratraditionalist Catholics threatens to end the pontiff’s honeymoon.

When a priest of the Catholic Church is being consecrated as a bishop, the prelate elevating him is required to ask for the Apostolic Mandate — the formal approval of the pope for his new office — to ...

Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday issued a plea to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics to call off its plan to consecrate new bishops without his consent, describing the move as a schismatic act and a ...

The traditionalist Society of St. Pius X went ahead with the ceremony, even after the Vatican warned it would result in the ...

(RNS) — Chapter 2 of the encyclical might be called the official ‘Cliff Notes’ version of Catholic social teaching.