Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said Pope Leo XIV is praying for the leaders of the SSPX to 'reconsider the very grave decision they have made.' Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the ...

Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Father Davide Pagliarani, superior general of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, are pictured in a ...

Toronto Catholics have urged a cardinal to mediate with Pope Leo as SSPX faces excommunication over planned bishop ...

The Vatican will meet next week with the leader of a traditionalist group that announced plans to consecrate new bishops without papal approval — a move that risks deepening a decades-long schism.

"The SSPX are not schismatics — they pray for the pope, and we should represent their position fairly," Fr. Dominic White, prior of Blackfriars in Oxford, told OSV News. "However, they have issues ...

Final Vatican warning: Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández said SSPX's July 1 bishop consecrations without papal consent would trigger automatic excommunication under canon law. Decades-old rift: The ...