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Fr. Gerald E. Murray: SSPX: Schism and Excommunication – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Fr. Gerald E. Murray: SSPX: Schism and Excommunication

SSPX Consecrates Bishops in Defiance of Rome’s Schism Warning, by Victoria Cardiel

SSPX Consecrations: The State of Necessity in 2026, by Kennedy Hall

Marcel Lefebvre in 1981 [source: Wikipedia]

By Fr. Gerald E. Murray, The Catholic Thing, July 2, 2026

The Rev. Gerald E. Murray, J.C.D. is a canon lawyer and the pastor of Pastor of St. Joseph’s Church in New York City. His new book (with Diane Montagna), Calming the Storm: Navigating the Crises Facing the Catholic Church and Society, is now available.

The canonically illegal consecration/ordination (the terms are interchangeable) of four new bishops by two Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) bishops who were themselves illegally ordained by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre 38 years ago is a renewed wound upon the Mystical Body of Christ. This schismatic act of disobedience carried out in direct defiance of Pope Leo XIV’s public warning has resulted in the incurring by the six bishops of latae sententiae (automatic) excommunication.

While claiming to uphold the traditional faith of the Catholic Church, the newly excommunicated bishops boldly cast aside what the Catholic Church has always taught her children, namely that the hierarchical nature of Catholicism includes the dogmatic teaching that the pope is the Supreme Authority to whom all Catholics owe obedience. That obedience, needless to say, includes not ordaining bishops when the pope forbids such ordinations. …

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