{"id":84027,"date":"2026-06-30T07:42:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84027"},"modified":"2026-06-30T07:42:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:42:51","slug":"leo-in-last-minute-plea-to-breakaway-traditionalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/leo-in-last-minute-plea-to-breakaway-traditionalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Leo In Last-Minute Plea To Breakaway Traditionalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/5c320b4\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/4661x3107+0+0\/resize\/320x213!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F85%2F38%2Fdeac77d05e967742d442fe60d127%2F635a508475ef4925b07266452cd1306a\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday urged a breakaway group of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vatican-traditionalist-sspx-pope-7cb0c0f89e527f1fe732f1b157cf7598\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">traditionalist Catholics<\/a><\/span>\u00a0to call off its plan to consecrate new bishops without his consent, calling the move a schismatic act and a \u201csin of extreme gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI plead with you and ask you with all my heart: please turn back!\u201d Leo wrote in a letter to the Rev. Davide Pagliarani, the superior of the Society of St. Pius X.\u00a0Leo issued the last-ditch appeal a day before the society plans to consecrate four new bishops at its seminary in Econe, Switzerland. Under church law, the consecrations constitute a schismatic act, or an intentional rupture of the unity of the Catholic Church, and incur automatic excommunication for the four bishops and the bishop administering the consecration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Pope Leo XIV on Tuesday urged a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics\u00a0to call off its plan to consecrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84028,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84027\/revisions\/84028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}