OPINION: Leo Prepares Spiritual Death Penalty for SSPX While Honoring Schismatic Heretical Laywoman Impersonating a Bishop, by Chris Jackson

On one side, Sarah Mullally, the newly installed Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, arrives in Rome for the full ecumenical treatment. She is scheduled to meet Leo XIV at the Vatican, worship with Anglican communities in Rome, pray at the tombs of Peter and Paul, meet officials from the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, and join Leo for midday prayer in the Apostolic Palace. The official ecumenical framing is not subtle. This is about “deepening dialogue,” “shared witness,” “bonds of communion,” and the familiar postconciliar language of walking together toward visible unity.

On the other side, rumors are now circulating that Rome is preparing to treat the Society of St. Pius X as the next great ecclesial emergency. Rorate reports that Roman sources say Leo XIV intends to follow the “1988 jurisprudence” if the SSPX proceeds with episcopal consecrations on July 1, with a decree similar in tone and content to the 1988 Gantin decree against Archbishop Lefebvre and the bishops he consecrated. That decree, if issued as described, would declare excommunication for the consecrating and newly consecrated bishops and denounce the act as “schismatic.” ….

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