Vatican excommunicates hundreds of thousands of splinter sect followers

According to BBC World, the Vatican has excommunicated around six hundred thousand members of the Society of Saint Pius X, a Catholic splinter movement opposed to modern church reforms. The formal schism ends decades of escalating tensions between Rome and one of Catholicism's most significant dissident communities.

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