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The Catholic Church declares the Society of Saint Pius X to be in schism and excommunicates its members following a consecration dispute. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. The Catholic Church
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  declares the Society of Saint Pius the Tenth to be
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  in schism and excommunicates its members following a consecration dispute.
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  On the first of July twenty twenty six, members of
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  the Society of Saint Pius the Tenth in Econne, Switzerland,
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  consecrated four bishops against the direct orders of Pope Leo
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  the fourteenth, triggering a religious schism between s SPX and
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  the Catholic Church. The consecrations were performed by SSPX Bishop
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  Alfonso de Gallereta, assisted by Bishop Bernard Felt. The four
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  men consecrated were Michael Goldade, Mark Hannepier, Michael Ponsonne de SIV,
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  and Pascal Schreiber. The SSPX was founded in opposition to
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  the Second Vatican Council's reforms, including the use of vernacular
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  language instead of Latin during Mass. Its founder Marcel Lefev
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  previously consecrated bishops without papal consent in nineteen eighty eight.
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  This led to the participants being excommunicated from the church,
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  although these excommunications were later reversed. The SSPX's July twenty
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  twenty six consecrations deliberately echoed the group's nineteen eighty eight
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  consecrations taking place in the same meadow thirty eight years later.
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  The Holy See warned in advance that the consecrations would
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  constitute eight schismatic act under canon law. As a result
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  of the consecrations, the Vatican declared that the bishops involved,
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  the priests of the SSPX, and any laity who formally
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  adhere to the group were excommunicated. This event has been
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  described as a major test of Leo the fourteenth Pontificate.
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  In the canon law of the Catholic Church, excommunication is
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  a form of censure. In the formal sense of the term,
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  excommunication includes being barred not only from the sacraments, but
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  also from the fellowship of Christian baptism, the principal and
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  severest censure, excommunication presupposes guilt and being, and the most
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  serious penalty that the Catholic Church can inflict. It supposes
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  a grave offense. The excommunicated person is considered by Catholic
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  ecclesiastical authority as an exile from the Church for a
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  time at least. Excommunication is intended to invite the person
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  to change behavior or attitude repent and return to full communion.
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  It is not an expiatory penalty designed to make satisfaction
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  for the wrong done, much less a vindictive penalty designed
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  solely to punish. Excommunication, which is the gravest penalty of all,
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  is always medicinal. Its object and its effect are loss
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  of communion, i e. Of the spiritual benefit shared by
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  all the members of Catholic society. Hence, it can affect
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  only those who, by baptism have been admitted to that society.
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  There can and do exist other penal measures which entail
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  the loss of certain fixed rights. Among them are other
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  censures e g. Suspension for clerics and interdict. Excommunication, however,
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  is distinguished from these penalties in that it is the
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  privation of all rights resulting from the social status of
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  the Catholic. As such, a person who has been excommunicated
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  is still juridically bound by the precepts of the Church,
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  including attending Mass. These excommunicated people are to refrain from
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  receiving the Eucharist. The Society of Saint Pius the Tenth
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  is a schismatic traditionalist Catholic priestly fraternity founded in nineteen
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  seventy by Archbishop Marcel Lefevre. It was declared schismatic and
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  excommunicated by the Catholic Church on the second of July
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  twenty twenty six, following the Econne consecrations of Day Prior.
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  Members are commonly called Lepebriists or Lefebrians, terms the SSPX rejects.
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  In Christianity, a schism occurs when a single religious body
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  divides and becomes two separate religious bodies. The split can
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  be violent or non violent, but results in at least
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  one of the two newly created bodies considering itself distinct
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  from the other. This article covers schisms in Christianity. In
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  the early Christian Church, the formation of a distinction between
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  the concepts of heresy and schism began. In ecclesiastical usage,
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  the term heresy refers to a serious confrontation based on
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  disagreements over fundamental issues of faith or morality, while the
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  term schism usually means a lesser form of disunity caused
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  by organizational or less important ideological differences. Heresy is rejection
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  of a doctrine that a church considered to be essential.
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  Schism is a rejection of communion with the authorities of
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