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Church Splits & Realignments
Church splits and realignments: congregations leaving denominations, new church bodies, schisms over doctrine and sexuality, and fights over property.
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TRIBUNE. The unity of the Church, tradition and “the union of the clans”
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Leo XIV’s excommunication backfires: SSPX lists multiple priests who just joined them
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (611+ words) The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) on Friday posted a list of diocesan and religious priests around the world who have joined the Society, undeterred by penalties or the Vatican’s declared excommunications. “After the ordinations, diocesan priests continue to…...
EXCLUSIVE: SSPX official: Excommunications are ‘grave’ but ‘not infallible’
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The SSPX defends the Écône consecrations and recalls that the excommunications "are not infallible"
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Another diocesan priest links up with SSPX, bishop removes faculties
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