{"id":90162,"date":"2026-05-13T17:03:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/?p=90162"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:08:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T15:08:41","slug":"vatican-makes-it-clear-sspx-will-incur-excommunication-if-they-ordain-bishops-this-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2026\/05\/13\/vatican-makes-it-clear-sspx-will-incur-excommunication-if-they-ordain-bishops-this-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Vatican makes it clear: SSPX will incur excommunication if they ordain bishops this July"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carmen \u00c1lvarez Cuadrado<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Holy See has once again clarified that the SSPX's plans to carry out ordinations on July 1 do not have papal approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If they go ahead with ordinations, they will violate canon 1387 of Church law, the consequences of which are explained as such:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GFX<\/strong><br><em>The episcopal ordinations announced by the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X do not have the requisite papal mandate. This act will constitute \u201ca schismatic act\u201d and \u201cformal adherence to the schism constitutes a grave offence against God and entails the excommunication established under Church law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excommunication, states the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, will be the consequence. And, according to the statement, Pope Leo XIV hopes the SSPX will reconsider:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>GFX<\/strong><br><em>The Holy Father continues in his prayers to ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten those responsible for the Priestly Fraternity of Saint Pius X so that they may reconsider the extremely grave decision they have taken.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First founded in the 1970s, the SSPX has been very critical of the Second Vatican Council since its start\u2014it is, in fact, <em>why<\/em> it started. At the time, its founder Archbishop Lefebvre ordained bishops without papal approval, provoking a schism with Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pope Benedict XVI readmitted them in 2009, but if they do not cancel the upcoming ordinations, they will incur automatic excommunication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen \u00c1lvarez Cuadrado The Holy See has once again clarified that the SSPX's plans to carry out ordinations on July 1 do not have papal approval. If they go ahead with ordinations, they will violate canon 1387 of Church law, the consequences of which are explained as such: GFXThe episcopal ordinations announced by the Priestly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":758,"featured_media":90163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bj2BgtQNCqs","video_descarga":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bdottrinafedefssxeng.mp4","international_url":"https:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bdottrinafedefssxint.mp4","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/758"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90166,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90162\/revisions\/90166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}