Vatican issues excommunication threat to far-right Catholic sect
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The Vatican has warned the far-right Society of St Pius X (SSPX) that it faces excommunication if it goes ahead with plans to ordain new bishops without papal approval
It’s the sharpest confrontation since the 1980s between Rome and the ultra-traditionalist sect with a long and squalid history of far-right politics and antisemitism.
The Swiss-based society announced in February that it intended to ordain new bishops without Vatican consent, citing a need for more senior clergy to lead its operations.
Formal warning
The SSPX currently has only two bishops, both in their sixties, limiting its capacity to ordain new priests and replenish its ranks.
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, responded on 13 May with a formal warning that the planned ordinations would constitute “a schismatic act” carrying automatic excommunication.
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