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 group conducts Mass in ancient Latin and considers the reforms of the church full of heresy and error. It rejects the English Mass and the Catholic Church’s dialogue with other faiths and branches ...

The Vatican responded Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope's consent, declaring the ...

SSPX followers are sometimes known as Lefebvrists after their founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, who was excommunicated in ...

The Most Rev. Evelio Menjivar-Ayala was installed Thursday as the 10th bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston at the ...

A Williston, North Dakota, native is among four priests excommunicated by the Vatican after being consecrated as bishops ...

The Society of St. Pius X was excommunicated by Pope Leo for ordaining bishops without his permission. Its issues with the ...

The Vatican's also been working for years to bring SSPX back in line, but this particular schism feels like it might be different. As NPR explained: But the sanctions imposed Thursday suggest that ...

Pope Leo the 14th reacted quickly, and harshly, to a defiant, conservative Catholic congregation, excommunicating them from the Catholic church.

The Vatican has excommunicated followers of a conservative Catholic splinter sect, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), a day after it consecrated four new bishops in Geneva agains ...