The SSPX, a group of ultra-conservative Catholics, consecrated four bishops and livestreamed the ceremony in defiance of Pope ...

The traditionalist Catholics who defied Pope Leo XIV and caused a schism defended their actions Friday. The head of the ...

Despite a personal appeal from Pope Leo XIV, the Society of St. Pius X went ahead July 1 with the unauthorized consecration of four new bishops at its seminary in Écône, Switzerland, with the Mass ...

An ultra-traditionalist Catholic group has consecrated bishops without papal consent, risking a rupture with the church. The ...

Pope Leo made a last-minute appeal to the SSPX to “turn back” from illicitly ordaining bishops, saying, “to tear the seamless garment of Christ is a sin of extreme gravity.” ...

The traditionalist society published an open letter to the Vatican on June 24, ahead of the extraordinary consistory of ...

COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV has chosen, with discretion, to end the failed outreach of Pope Benedict XVI to the SSPX.

Pope Leo XIV has urged the head of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X to halt the unauthorized consecration of new bishops, warning that the move would cause a formal schism and deprive ...

The SSPX ordained four new bishops without a papal mandate in Switzerland, triggering automatic excommunication for all six bishops involved.

Pope Leo XIV faces an early test as a traditionalist Catholic group presses ahead with disputed bishop ordinations.