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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-02T08:54:04.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Pope Leo at the Vatican. It is a strict teaching of the Catholic Church that only the Pope can authorise the consecration of new ⁠bishops. Photo: Reuters   \n\n  \n\nThe Vatican says priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval are in schism with the wider Church and now excommunicated.",
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