Vatican Excommunicates Right-Wing Catholic Group Over Unauthorized Ordinations

The Vatican announced the excommunication of a right-wing Catholic group that unauthorizedly ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval. The group is now in schism with the Church, and members of the Society of St. Pius X celebrate sacraments illicitly, rendering marriages and confessions invalid.

The Vatican excommunicated a breakaway right-wing Catholic group for ordaining bishops without papal approval on Thursday. These ordinations place them in schism with the wider Church.

In a decisive decree, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Church's authoritative body on doctrinal matters, issued a global warning about the Swiss-based Society of St. Pius X. The group, now deemed excommunicated, performs sacraments illicitly.

The Church's decree emphasized that marriages and confessions conducted by the group are not valid, indicating a serious breach of Church teachings by the ultra-traditionalist group.