Cork sect excommunicated by Pope Leo to celebrate Mass 'as usual' on Sunday
Latin Mass will be celebrated “as normal” on Sunday in Cork’s Our Lady of the Rosary Church in Shanakiel, a breakaway Catholic sect has said, despite the Vatican this week excommunicating all of its members.
In a strongly-worded decree, the Vatican said priests and lay Catholics who are part of the ultraconservative group the Society of St Pius X (SSPX) are in schism with the wider Church and are now excommunicated.
That decree came after the rebel group defied Pope Leo XIV by ordaining bishops without his consent, creating a schism in the 1.4bn-member Catholic Church.
The unauthorised ordination of bishops is considered by the Catholic Church to be so serious that it causes those taking part in the ceremony to be automatically “out of communion” with the Church.
Thursday’s decree went further than expected by saying that all priests of the SSPX and all Catholics who “adhere formally” to the group are now in schism and excommunicated.
The Vatican warned that the...
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