US EditionVatican offers dialogue with breakaway Latin Mass traditionalist group, but with a catch
The Vatican demands SSPX suspend illicit bishop consecrations or face schism and automatic excommunication while offering dialogue to restore canonical status, citing 733 priests and 264 seminarians in SSPX.
- On Feb. 12, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith offered a structured theological dialogue to the Society of Saint Pius X, provided it suspends episcopal ordinations set for July 1, 2026.
- The Society's stated plan to ordain without papal approval prompted Vatican warnings that such consecrations without Pope Leo XIV's consent incur automatic excommunication and risk a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion.
- Vatican officials listed doctrinal questions including the difference between 'act of faith' and 'obedience of faith' and issues in SSPX letters from 2017–2019 and Jan. 17, 2019.
- Father Pagliarani will present Fernández's proposal to the SSPX Superior Council, then respond to the Dicastery, with mutual steps to follow if accepted, and the Church is asked to pray for the process.
- Historically, the SSPX split from Rome in 1988 when Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre illicitly consecrated four bishops, leading to excommunications later lifted by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009, while the group grew to include two bishops, 733 priests, 264 seminarians, and hundreds more worldwide.
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Vatican Keeps Door Open for Discussion with Traditionalist Society
After the bombshell announcement by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X (SSPX) of its intention to proceed with new episcopal consecrations with or without Rome’s consent in the summer of 2026, a meeting was organised in Rome between the superior of the Fraternity, Fr. Davide Pagliarani, and Cardinal Victor Manuel Fernández, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. While it did not provide any solutions, the rather cordial mee…
The superior of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Pius X, the heiress of Marcel Lefebvre, went to Rome while she undertook a test of strength with Pope Leo XIV.
The Vatican warned a dissident traditionalist Catholic group on Thursday that it runs the risk of becoming schism if it goes ahead with its plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent, setting a hard line in the face of a major doctrinal challenge facing Pope Leo XIV.
Vatican doctrinal chief meets with SSPX superior general, path of dialogue offered
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