{"id":53433,"date":"2026-07-01T20:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/53433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:30:23","slug":"these-ultra-conservative-bishops-defied-pope-leo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/53433\/","title":{"rendered":"These ultra&#8211;conservative bishops defied Pope Leo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"These ultra--conservative bishops defied Pope Leo\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ivUwvbwOtQg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThese ultra&#8211;conservative bishops defied Pope Leo<br \/>\n<br \/>\nA rebel group of ultra-conservative clergy has defied Pope Leo by ordaining four new bishops in Switzerland.<br \/>\nSubscribe \u25ba https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/guardianwires?sub_confirmation=1<\/p>\n<p>The ordinations, which the pope had warned would be a \u201csin of extreme gravity\u201d, mean automatic excommunication from the Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p>The group, the Society of St Pius X, was formed in Switzerland in 1970 to reject church reforms \u2013 most notably the celebration of mass in languages other than Latin. In recent years, the order has gained a significant following in the US and across the world and has nearly 1,500 priests, seminarians and other vocational members.<\/p>\n<p>Under church law, consecrating a bishop without the pope\u2019s approval incurs catholicism\u2019s harshest punishment: excommunication for the new bishops as well as for the bishop who ordained them.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s defiance further strains the church\u2019s fraught relationship with rightwing Catholics and could be the first significant crisis for Pope Leo, who has prioritised church unity.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremony\u2019s livestream was in French, with the society\u2019s YouTube channel also offering  simultaneous translation into English, German, Italian and Polish. During the offertory, a QR code appeared onscreen for those following remotely to make donations. Members of the Italian neofascist party Forza Nuova, and new far-right party Futuro Nazionale were among the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Tap the link to read more about how the sect\u2019s defiance could provoke a crisis for the pope \u25ba https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/01\/fears-catholic-schism-sect-ordains-ultra-conservative-bishops-pope-leo<\/p>\n<p>#pope #popeleo #romancatholic #societyofstpiusx #religion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"These ultra&#8211;conservative bishops defied Pope Leo A rebel group of ultra-conservative clergy has defied Pope Leo by ordaining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[95,48299,521,7443,48297,4018,7307,2207,48306,48310,14,48312,48311,48303,26632,48302,48305,48304,240,261,646,48298,48295,39250,527,530,48308,7442,536,12850,48296,48307,48300,48309,48294,48292,48293,537,48,48301],"class_list":["post-53433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guardian-news","tag-95","tag-bishops","tag-catholic","tag-catholic-church","tag-catholic-schism","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-church","tag-church-schism","tag-church-split","tag-donald-trump","tag-far-right-bishops","tag-far-right-catholics","tag-far-right-church","tag-fascism","tag-fascist","tag-forza-nuova","tag-futuro-nazionale","tag-guardian","tag-guardian-news","tag-italy","tag-ordained","tag-papa","tag-papa-leo","tag-pope","tag-pope-leo","tag-pope-leo-schism","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-religion","tag-religious","tag-roman-catholic","tag-schism","tag-sect","tag-sectarianism","tag-society-of-saint-pius","tag-society-of-st-pius","tag-society-of-st-pius-x","tag-the-pope","tag-trump","tag-ultra-conservative-christian"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}