Vatican Excommunicates SSPX Bishops Over Unauthorized Consecrations
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The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), the Vatican’s disciplinary watchdog, announced today that it will impose severe sanctions on the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX). The decision follows the group’s 2002 consecration of bishops without the required papal mandate, an act that the Holy See has long regarded as a grave breach of canon law. The CDF’s statement confirmed that the SSPX will face restrictions on its liturgical celebrations and a formal revocation of its status as a recognized Catholic society.
Under the new measures, SSPX clergy will be prohibited from celebrating the Roman Rite Mass in its traditional form without explicit permission, and the society will lose its ability to appoint bishops or priests without the
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