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Vatican excommunicates members of right-wing breakaway group SSPX
Key takeaways
- The Vatican has excommunicated priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group.
- The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) celebrates the ancient Latin mass and opposes the modernising reforms of the Catholic Church, which it considers to be rife with heresies and errors.
- The ultra-traditionalist group, which denies key church teachings, cannot officiate marriages or hear confessions validly, the Vatican has decreed.
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The Vatican has excommunicated priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group. (Reuters: Bruna Casas)
The Vatican has excommunicated priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval.
The Society of St Pius X (SSPX) celebrates the ancient Latin mass and opposes the modernising reforms of the Catholic Church, which it considers to be rife with heresies and errors.
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