7+ hour, 19+ min ago  (640+ words) STORY: :: A priest from an excommunicated Catholic sect says a future pope will 'welcome us back': : Kirchgemeinde Sancta Maria Wil: : Wil, Switzerland / July 5, 2026: : Georg Kopf, Priest "Just as we were thrown out, figuratively speaking, so one day there will one…...

15+ hour, 18+ min ago  (330+ words) ZURICH, July 5 (Reuters) - A priest from a Catholic splinter sect that was excommunicated earlier this week told worshippers on Sunday "that the breakaway group would be welcomed back to the Church under "a different pope. The Society of St. Pius…...

2+ day, 10+ hour ago  (389+ words) A bishop has made history by becoming the first woman to lead ordinations at Salisbury Cathedral. The first in the cathedral's 800-year history, Bishop Karen Gorham, Acting Bishop of Salisbury, ordained 13 people during services on Saturday and Sunday, June 27 and…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (380+ words) A breakaway Catholic society which defied the Vatican by consecrating new bishops said their excommunication by the Holy See was "unjust and invalid". The ultra-traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X consecrated four new bishops on Wednesday in defiance of Pope…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago  (496+ words) VATICAN CITY, July 2 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Thursday that priests and lay Catholics who are part of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) were in schism with the wider Church and "excommunicated, after the group ordained four bishops…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (537+ words) VATICAN CITY, July 2 (Reuters) - The Vatican said on Thursday that priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval were in schism with the wider Church "and now excommunicated....

3+ day, 21+ hour ago  (392+ words) Tens of thousands of Catholics flocked to a small parish in the Mekong Delta on Thursday for the first beatification ceremony held on Vietnamese soil. Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle presided as papal envoy over a special mass in a church…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (591+ words) Decades after triggering a rift with the Vatican by consecrating bishops in 1988, the Society of Saint Pius X was doing it again on Wednesday -- in defiance of Pope Leo XIV. The ultra-traditionalist breakaway group, which has around 600, 000 followers worldwide, intends to…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago  (697+ words) A traditionalist Catholic faction is poised to directly challenge Pope Leo XIV, risking schism and automatic excommunication, as it prepares to consecrate four bishops without papal consent. The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) has scheduled a major ceremony for…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago  (809+ words) The ceremony marks the first major crisis for Leo, who has prioritized church unity and healing tensions with traditionalists that worsened during the Pope Francis pontificate. The society, known by its acronym SSPX, was founded in opposition to the modernizing…...