The Vatican has issued a final warning to a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics. It says their planned consecrations ...

The Vatican warned that members of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X will incur excommunication if the group follows ...

Pope Leo XIV reads his message during a weekly general audience at the Vatican, Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) Pope Leo XIV reads his message during a weekly general audience at ...

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.

ROME—With Pope Leo XIV’s first big crisis looming, the Vatican on Wednesday issued a final warning to a breakaway group of ...

ROME (AP) — 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, ...