PreliminaryBriefThe SSPX episcopal consecrations of 2026
The SSPX is right that excommunications aren’t infallible. Its Slipyj precedent is weaker than it sounds
James Vogel, the SSPX’s communications director, told LifeSiteNews the 2026 excommunications are grave but not infallible, and pointed to three bishops Cardinal Josyf Slipyj consecrated without papal approval in 1977. Both statements check out; the precedent differs in ways that matter.
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