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Schismatic Catholic society sees six bishops excommunicated by Pope

Schismatic Catholic society sees six bishops excommunicated by Pope
France 24 Thursday 02 July 2026, 15:42 UTC By FRANCE24 1 min read
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To display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement. One of your browser extensions seems to be blocking the video player from loading. To watch this content, you may need to disable it on this site. Schismatic Catholic society sees six bishops excommunicated by Pope Europe Issued on: Modified: Share The Vatican has excommunicated six bishops from the ultraconservative Society of St Pius X, while warning that any lay believers who "formally adhere" to the breakaway Catholic group would suffer the same fate. It comes a day after the traditionalist group consecrated four new bishops, openly defying a plea from Pope Leo XIV to desist and exacerbating a rift dating from 1988.
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