The Priestly Society of Saint Pius X, also known as the SSPX, revealed on Monday that it plans to consecrate new bishops in July, even if the Holy See does not authorize it to do so. The move could ultimately trigger automatic excommunication for all the bishops who participate in the decades-old split with Rome.
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The SSPX exclusively celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and holds several other major doctrinal differences with the Second Vatican Council’s reforms. The sect hasn’t consecrated any bishops since the late 1980s, when its founder, Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, consecrated four bishops without Rome’s approval. The Vatican opposed the consecration as it violated canon law and excommunicated the bishops. The Vatican also excommunicated Lefebvre.
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