{"id":84054,"date":"2026-07-01T08:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84054"},"modified":"2026-07-01T08:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T12:22:18","slug":"traditionalists-move-forward-with-new-bishops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/traditionalists-move-forward-with-new-bishops\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditionalists Move Forward With New Bishops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics directly\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vatican-traditionalist-sspx-pope-7cb0c0f89e527f1fe732f1b157cf7598\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">defied Pope Leo XIV<\/a><\/span> by consecrating four bishops without his consent Wednesday, dismissing the resulting excommunications and schism by declaring it was a \u201csacred duty\u201d to defend the Catholic faith.\u00a0The Society of St. Pius X, which opposes modernizing reforms in the Catholic Church, went ahead with a ritual-filled ceremony at its seminary in Econe, Switzerland, despite a last-ditch appeal by Leo to call it off. The American pope warned in a letter Tuesday that consecrating bishops without his approval amounted to a \u201csin of extreme gravity\u201d that will actually harm their faithful.<\/p>\n<p>And yet bells tolled through the misty Alpine mountain valley as hundreds of priests processed two-by-two to the altar under a tent at the start of the service, which was attended by thousands of faithful Catholics who prefer the traditional Latin Mass over modern liturgies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: A breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics directly\u00a0defied Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without his consent Wednesday,.<\/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-84054","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\/84054","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=84054"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84055,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84054\/revisions\/84055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}