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    Viganò's excommunication for schism

    How former U.S. nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò went from his 2018 McCarrick 'testimony' to a July 2024 Vatican declaration that he had incurred excommunication for schism.

    9 dated events

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    Leo XIV and the Latin Mass

    What Pope Leo XIV has said and done about the pre-1970 Mass since May 2025: case-by-case permissions, a March 2026 audience with Latin Mass researchers, a letter on liturgy and Cardinal Roche's July 2026 statement that Traditionis custodes stays.

    13 dated events

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    The SSPX episcopal consecrations of 2026

    On 1 July 2026 the SSPX consecrated four bishops at Écône without a papal mandate, despite Pope Leo XIV's plea. The Vatican declared the six bishops involved excommunicated; the society rejects the penalties and has filed a recourse.

    15 dated events

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The communities, institutes and online scenes of traditionalist Catholicism — what they hold, who speaks for them, and how they got here.

  • Apparitions and prophecy culture

    Catholic media centred on Fatima, Garabandal, Akita and warnings of a coming chastisement. Church teaching treats private revelation as non-binding, and 2024 norms rule out declaring supernatural origin as a rule.

    3 outlets · 4 people

  • Benevacantism

    The claim that Benedict XVI's 2013 resignation was invalid, so that he remained pope until his death and Francis was an antipope. After 2022 the movement split, and some voices now dispute Leo XIV's election.

    2 outlets · 7 people

  • Catholic nationalism and the online right

    Where Catholic identity meets nationalist and right-populist politics online, from Bannon's Roman projects and Viganò's 2020 letters to the 'ordo amoris' debate, clashes with Leo XIV, and the groyper milieu.

    1 outlet · 6 people

  • Ecclesia Dei communities

    Priestly societies and lay groups in full communion with Rome that use the 1962 liturgical books — chiefly the FSSP, the Institute of Christ the King and the Institute of the Good Shepherd — born of the 1988 split with the SSPX.

    8 outlets · 6 people

  • European traditionalism

    Traditionalist Catholic communities, pilgrimages and media across Europe — from the SSPX founded at Écône to Rome-recognised institutes, the Chartres pilgrimage and blogs in Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Spain.

    18 outlets · 11 people

  • Feeneyism

    The strict reading of "no salvation outside the Church" linked to Fr. Leonard Feeney (d. 1978) and communities descended from Boston's Saint Benedict Center; the subject of a 1949 Holy Office letter.

    1 outlet · 1 person

  • Integralism and postliberalism

    A revived current of Catholic political thought holding that temporal power should serve the Church's spiritual ends, and the wider postliberal critique of liberalism that overlaps with it; influential in US and Hungarian conservative circles.

    4 outlets · 6 people

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  1. Catholic Identity Conference meets near Pittsburgh with Bishop Schneider as keynote speaker

    The annual Catholic Identity Conference, organised by The Remnant, met near Pittsburgh from 2 to 4 October 2026. InfoVaticana described a programme bringing together Vaticanists, liturgists and several bishops, with a keynote by Bishop Athanasius Schneider under a title referring to a "hostile takeover" within the Church; The Remnant reported that co-founder Eric Frankovitch closed the event by urging traditional Catholics to stop attacking one another.

    Papal-critique and 'resistance' mediaThe Latin Mass movement

  2. Viganò says Leo XIV's Élysée speech promotes the 'exact opposite of the Magisterium'

    Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, declared excommunicated for schism in 2024, posted a critique on X of Leo XIV's 25 September address at the Élysée Palace, which LifeSiteNews republished. He objected to the speech's favourable references to Enlightenment-era thinkers in connection with human rights and to its treatment of France's motto liberté, égalité, fraternité.

    Papal-critique and 'resistance' mediaReligious liberty

  3. Leo XIV visits France and urges dialogue with traditionalist Catholics

    During a 25–28 September visit to France that took him to Paris, Lourdes and Metz, Leo XIV pressed for unity and dialogue with France's traditionalist Catholics, many of them attached to the older Latin liturgy, Religion News Service reported. The Vatican estimated about 800,000 people at his open-air Mass in Paris, according to Al Jazeera.

    European traditionalismLeo XIV and the Latin Mass

  4. At Notre-Dame, Leo XIV ties liturgy to unity with Peter's successor; trad outlets react

    At Vespers with French clergy and religious in Notre-Dame Cathedral on the first day of his visit to France, Leo XIV urged that the liturgy be celebrated "with dignity and decorum" (InfoVaticana's rendering) and asked his listeners to place communion with the Successor of Peter and with the Church above personal preferences for the sake of unity. LifeSiteNews suggested the passage could be read as a reference to the SSPX and the traditional Latin Mass; an UnHerd column later argued that Leo treats the old rite as a personal preference rather than a source of renewal.

    Leo XIV and the Latin MassLiturgy law: from the 1984 indult to Traditionis custodes

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