The significance of Pope Leo’s decision to excommunicate the Society of Saint Pius X

Excommunication is not simply a relic of medieval Christianity — it remains an important instrument through which the ...
Catholic Standard

Analysis: Why the SSPX dispute was never really about the Latin Mass

While the society claims it was compelled to ordain new bishops July 1 in Ecône, Switzerland in order to guarantee to celebrate what they consider the true Mass, Vatican officials and scholars say the ...
i24NEWS

Vatican excommunicates group of right-wing Catholic bishops over unauthorized ordinations

The move deepens a decades-long rift between Rome and the traditionalist movement founded by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, despite repeated Vatican efforts at reconciliation ...

Factbox-What to know about SSPX, the Catholic traditionalists in new schism

VATICAN CITY, July 2 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Thursday that priests and lay Catholics who are part of the Society of ...