{"id":84122,"date":"2026-07-04T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84122"},"modified":"2026-07-04T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T12:22:12","slug":"sspx-defends-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/sspx-defends-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"SSPX Defends Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ebb9d22\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/3500x2333+0+0\/resize\/599x399!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2Fcf%2F42%2Fc514772563a67a7272e56e1d2769%2Fa9594cd5a86f490484bfb107491ec940\" width=\"249\" height=\"166\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The traditionalist Catholics who defied Pope Leo XIV and\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vatican-traditionalist-pope-latin-st-pius-6570c6bcc0784f4b9229e20bdec4e5aa\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">caused a schism<\/a><\/span> defended their actions Friday, insisting they were merely saving souls and were victim of an unjust sanction by the Holy See.\u00a0The head of the Society of St. Pius X wrote to Leo a day after the Vatican excommunicated the group\u2019s bishops and priests and warned its faithful they too could be excommunicated for participating in the schism, or rupture in church unity.<\/p>\n<p>The society, known as SSPX, celebrates the ancient Latin Mass and opposes the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church. On Wednesday, it consecrated four new bishops without papal consent during a\u00a0<span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/vatican-traditionalist-pope-latin-975a7dd408e151310f5e515030cd6c97\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">massive ceremony<\/a><\/span>\u00a0at its seminary in Econe, Switzerland, committing one of the gravest crimes in church law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: The traditionalist Catholics who defied Pope Leo XIV and\u00a0caused a schism defended their actions Friday, insisting they were.<\/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-84122","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\/84122","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=84122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84123,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84122\/revisions\/84123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}