Ultra-traditionalist SSPX consecrates bishops without papal consent, risking schism

The ultra-traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) has consecrated new bishops without papal consent, risking a formal rupture with the Roman Catholic Church. Pope Francis had personally appealed to the group to abandon the plan, but was ignored. The move deepens a decades-long standoff between the Vatican and the SSPX, which has long operated on the fringes of official Catholicism.

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