A breakaway Catholic traditionalist group has rejected the Vatican’s offer of talks. The position of the Society of St. Pius ...

Most enthusiasts view the traditional Mass as a deep source of spiritual community, fully compatible with modern Catholic renewal.

The head of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith said he proposed a path for dialogue and full communion to the leader of SSPX at a meeting on Thursday.

The Vatican warned a breakaway traditionalist Catholic group on Thursday that it risked going into schism if it goes ahead with plans to consecrate new bishops without papal consent, ...

Pope Leo XIV is facing his first major crisis with traditionalist Catholics. A breakaway group attached to the traditional Latin Mass, the Society of St. Pius X, has announced plans to consecrate ...

John Paul II excommunicated four bishops consecrated in 1988 by SSPX founder Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre without Vatican permission. The Priestly Society of Pius X (SPPX) announced it would consecrate ...

Father Davide Pagliarani, 47, center, was elected July 11 as the new superior general of the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X during the society's general chapter in Econe, Switzerland. Credit: ...