SSPX Masses an ‘Abuse’ of Eucharist: U.S. Bishops Continue to Urge Catholics Not to Attend
More U.S. bishops are instructing Catholics to avoid attending Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) events in light of the recent excommunications of SSPX leadership.
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Why Does the Vatican Recognize Orthodox Marriages but Not Those of the SSPX?
The answer has to do with profoundly different juridical and ecclesial realities.
After SSPX Excommunications, Oslo Bishop Offers Wider Latin Mass Access
The bishops of Oslo and Copenhagen have condemned the Society of St. Pius X consecrations as schism while pledging to protect the traditional liturgy within the Church.
![‘The Holy See has made clear that the clergy of the Society [of St. Pius X] are now to be regarded as schismatic,’ Bishop Frank Caggiano said in a statement.](https://publisher-ncreg.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/pb-ncregister/swp/hv9hms/media/2026070617078_0ab6902d-8c02-4eac-aba4-1ec174e52618.png "‘The Holy See has made clear that the clergy of the Society [of St. Pius X] are now to be regarded as schismatic,’ Bishop Frank Caggiano said in a statement.")
Various US Bishops ‘Invite Home’ SSPX Attendees After Excommunications of Leadership
Catholic bishops with Society of St. Pius X locations in their areas are forbidding Catholics from attending SSPX services and urging attendees and SSPX priests to return to the Catholic Church.
EWTN News Explains: As a Catholic, Can You Attend an SSPX Mass?
The traditionalist group has been declared in schism with the Catholic Church after an illicit 'ordination' of bishops.
SSPX Rejects Vatican’s Excommunication, Calls It ‘Objectively’ Unjust and Invalid
In a letter addressed to Pope Leo XIV, released on July 3, Father Davide Pagliarani, superior general of the SSPX, justified the episcopal consecrations that prompted the Vatican’s decree.
What John Paul II Left Implicit Is Now Explicit: SSPX Is in Schism
COMMENTARY: Pope Leo XIV has chosen, with discretion, to end the failed outreach of Pope Benedict XVI to the SSPX.
What Is the SSPX? A Look at the Traditionalist Catholic Group in Schism With the Church
The Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) is a traditionalist group that is not in full communion with the Catholic Church and has a canonically irregular status.
Vatican Formally Notifies SSPX Bishops of Excommunication
Because the traditionalist group consecrated bishops without papal approval, the Vatican issued a decree on July 2 declaring those bishops and their consecrators automatically excommunicated.
Cardinal Parolin: SSPX Ordinations Are ‘Schismatic’
Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the episcopal ordinations carried out without papal mandate by the Society of St. Pius X 'deeply wound' Church unity.
