What Happens if Rebel Catholics Defy Pope Leo
- Cardinal Gerhard Müller labeled the Society of St. Pius X's plan to consecrate four bishops without papal mandate a schismatic act and said such acts mark individuals as not Catholic or anti-Catholic and incur automatic excommunication.
- Müller emphasized that the issue concerns authority, not the validity of the Traditional Latin Mass, which he affirmed remains valid, distinguishing devotion to traditional liturgy from rejection of papal authority.
- The Society of St. Pius X plans to consecrate four priests, including Father Michael Goldade, on July 1 at its seminary in Écône, Switzerland, echoing Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre's 1988 consecrations.
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To use a football metaphor, the schism now entered the area Cesarini. There are only three days left and, except for an intervention of the last hour that no one considers in the Vatican by now...
On Wednesday, July 1, the pulse will be consummated between the Lefebvrian traditionalists and Leo XIV. If in these hours they do not back down, they will order four bishops even though it has been forbidden by the Pope, which will leave them out of the Catholic Church and will constitute a schism that indirectly affects some 600,000 people. If this new lefebvrian schism was a film, it would be a 'remake' of a box office four decades ago. Alread…
The day can unveil the content of an intervention of a cardinal who asked for a reply to St. Pius X after the accusations of deviations from tradition. We will also address the theme of the reception of those who return to Rome after illicit consecrations
National Catholic Register
catholicworldreport.comCardinal Müller Calls SSPX Consecrations Schismatic, Defends the Latin Mass
Cardinal Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, speaks during an interview with EWTN News In Depth on June 19, 2026. The former Vatican doctrine chief likened the Society of St. Pius X to the ancient Donatist schism, days before its planned July 1 episcopal consecrations at Écône.
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