Schismatic Catholic society sees six bishops excommunicated by Pope

The Vatican has excommunicated six bishops from the ultraconservative Society of Saint Pius the Tenth. According to France twenty-four, the Church is warning that lay believers who formally join the breakaway group risk the same punishment. The action comes after the traditionalist society publicly consecrated four new bishops despite Pope Leo the Fourteenth's plea to stop, and deepens a split that began in nineteen eighty-eight.

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