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Pope Leo XIV issued an bonzer last-minute plea Tuesday to a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group to wantonness plans to consecrate 4 bishops without Vatican approval, informing nan move was a "sin of utmost gravity" and could deepen a decades-old divided pinch nan Church.
In a missive addressed to nan Rev. Davide Pagliarani, leader of nan Society of St. Pius X, Leo urged nan group to reconsider earlier Wednesday's planned ceremonial successful Econe, Switzerland, saying it would spot nan bishops progressive extracurricular nan Church’s communion.
"I plead pinch you and inquire you pinch each my heart: please move back!" nan pope wrote.
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Pope Leo XIV waves during nan Angelus noon dream from nan model of his workplace overlooking St. Peter's Square, astatine nan Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Under religion law, consecrating bishops without papal support is considered a schismatic enactment and carries automatic excommunication for some nan bishops being ordained and nan bishop performing nan ceremony.
"I impulse you to see cautiously nan belief bully of nan faithful, because nan schismatic enactment you are astir to undertake would deprive them of nan licit, and successful immoderate cases, moreover valid reception of nan sacraments," Leo wrote.
Pope Leo XIV delivers his connection arsenic he celebrates a Mass wherever he confers nan pallium connected recently appointed metropolitan archbishops, successful St. Peter's Basilica, astatine nan Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
The conflict marks nan first awesome situation of Leo's pontificate. Since becoming pope, nan American-born pontiff has emphasized treatment divisions within nan Church, including tensions pinch traditionalist Catholics who favour nan aged Latin Mass.
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The Society of St. Pius X was founded aft nan Second Vatican Council, rejecting galore of nan church's reforms, including allowing Mass to beryllium celebrated successful section languages alternatively of Latin. The group has agelong based on that it is preserving authentic Catholic teaching.
The nine defended its determination to consecrate 4 caller bishops, saying location is simply a "state of necessity" requiring it to supply bishops for its faithful.
The planned ceremonial echoes a akin confrontation successful 1988, erstwhile nan group's founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated 4 bishops without papal approval. The Vatican responded by excommunicating Lefebvre and nan recently ordained bishops, though those excommunications were lifted successful 2009 arsenic portion of an effort to reconstruct relations.
Pope Leo XIV leaves aft a Mass wherever he conferred nan pallium connected recently appointed metropolitan archbishops, successful St. Peter's Basilica, astatine nan Vatican, Monday, June 29, 2026. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
Despite years of speech pinch nan Vatican, nan SSPX remains extracurricular nan church's general structure.
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The nine has continued to grow successful caller decades, reporting hundreds of priests, seminarians and belief members crossed dozens of countries, making it 1 of nan largest traditionalist movements operating extracurricular nan Catholic Church's charismatic authority.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
