COMMENTARY: As the Society of St. Pius X is again on the brink of schism, perhaps a more traditional approach from the Holy See would serve the universal Church — and the adherents of the SSPX — ...

The Society of St. Pius X has rejected a Vatican offer of dialogue and said it will move forward with plans to ordain bishops without a papal mandate this summer. In a letter sent to the Vatican on ...

A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group on Thursday rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks, suggesting a collision course with Pope Leo XIV over its planned consecrations of new bishops without his ...

ROME (OSV News) — The Society of St. Pius X has rejected a Vatican offer of dialogue and said it will move forward with plans to ordain bishops without a papal mandate this summer. In a letter sent to ...

ROME — A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group on Thursday rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks, suggesting a collision course with Pope Leo XIV over its planned consecrations of new bishops ...

Commentators warned that if Pope Leo gives in to SSPX demands, even partially, it would show the strength of far-right Catholics after the papacy of Pope Francis. The Vatican faces a renewed showdown ...

ROME — The Vatican warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group on Thursday that it risked going into schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent, setting a ...

Cardinal Victor Fernandez, prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, meets with the superior general of the Society of Saint Pius X, Davide Pagliarani, Feb. 12, 2026. (Credit: ...

The head of the Society of St. Pius X will meet with Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, the prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, Feb. 12 after the traditionalist group announced ...

It is being reported that the radical traditionalist community known as the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is planning on going ahead this summer with new episcopal ordinations, even if it is without ...

The Vatican will meet next week with the leader of a traditionalist group that announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal approval — a move that risks deepening a decades-long schism.

A traditionalist group of Catholic priests that has been at odds with the Vatican for decades threatened a full schism with Rome this weekend, saying it plans to consecrate bishops without approval ...