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Spanish Cardinal suspends himself after sexual assault allegations

Cardinal Cristobal Lopez Romero walks, following the death of Pope Francis, in Rome, Italy, April 22, 2025. REUTERS/Claudia Greco

Pope Leo praises US history of welcoming immigrants at 250th anniversary

Pope Leo leads the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican, June 29, 2026. REUTERS/Yara Nardi

Excommunications show a Pope Leo unafraid of making firm decisions

Pope Leo waving after leading the Angelus prayer from a window of the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican on June 29.

What to know about Society of St Pius X, the Catholic traditionalists in new schism

Priests receiving episcopal consecration during a pontifical mass organised by Society of Saint Pius X in Econe, Switzerland, on July 1.

Members of rebel Catholic group in schism, excommunicated: Vatican

The Vatican on July 2 said the two bishops who led the unauthorised ordination had been excommunicated, along with the four priests who had become new bishops.

Rebel Catholic group’s forbidden ordinations caused ‘schism’, Vatican cardinal says

Priests receive blessings from newly ordained priests, after an ordination ceremony of the traditionalist Catholic Society of St Pius X, in Econe, near Sion, western Switzerland, on June 29. Defying Vatican, Society of St Pius X ordained its own bishops on July 1, 2026.

Breakaway Catholic society defies Vatican again by ordaining bishops

The Society of Saint Pius X intends to appoint two French, one American and one Swiss as bishops.

US Vice-President Vance says the Vatican’s views on immigration are ‘troubling’

Pope Leo XIV meets with U.S Vice President JD Vance at the Vatican, May 19, 2025. Vatican Media/Simone Risoluti/Handout via REUTERS

Sadness and joy as breakaway Catholic group nears schism

Defying the Vatican, the traditionalist Catholic Society of Saint Pius X will ordain its own bishops on July 1, despite the risk of being considered schismatic.

Pope Leo appeals to Catholic traditionalists to avoid schism

Pope Leo XIV leading a mass on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, Rome’s patron saints, at St Peter’s basilica in the Vatican on June 29.

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