DAR ES SALAAM — ROMA: THE Vatican announced Thursday that priests and members of a breakaway Catholic group that ordained four new bishops in defiance of Pope Leo XIV's wishes are in schism and excommunicated. The Society of Saint Pius X, an ultra-traditionalist group, went ahead with the ordinations on Wednesday without papal approval and despite appeals from Leo The post Breakaway Catholic group excommunicated after defying warnings from Pope Leo appeared first on Daily News.
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