The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new bishops without consent from Pope Leo, warning the action would incur excommunication from the 1.4-billion-member Church.
In the first known threat of the Church's most severe penalty during Leo's papacy, the Vatican's doctrinal office told the Swiss-based Society of St. Pius X any ordination of bishops would create a "schism", or formal rupture with the pope.
The Society of St. Pius X is an ultra-traditionalist group that denies the key teachings of the Second Vatican Council, a landmark Vatican gathering of bishops in the 1960s that pursued a range of reforms for the global Church.
The Council also allowed for the Mass, until then said only in Latin, to be celebrated in local languages. The society rejected that change, citing a desire for the Latin rite's sense of mystery and formality.
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