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Traditionalist faction defies pope, risks excommunication

A traditionalist Catholic faction defies Pope Leo XIV by consecrating four bishops without approval, risking schism and automatic excommunication. The SSPX claims necessity, but critics view it as disobedience. The ceremony occurs 38 years after similar acts were declared schismatic.