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"path": "/2026/06/30/leo-urges-sspx-to-turn-back-as-breakaway-traditionalists-plan-bishop-consecrations/",
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"textContent": "VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Leo XIV is urging the Society of St. Pius X to abandon plans to consecrate new bishops without papal approval, a move the Vatican warns would constitute a schismatic act. The showdown could end nearly two decades of cautious rapprochement between Rome and the traditionalist society, which has long occupied a liminal space between communion and rupture.",
"title": "Leo urges SSPX to ‘turn back’ as breakaway traditionalists plan bishop consecrations"
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