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sir pball

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32. This isn't even the first time SSPX has pulled these shenanigans...

Thu Jul 2, 2026, 02:02 PM

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They consecrated some bishops in 1988; John Paul excommunicated the bishops directly involved (the consecrators and consecratees) but didn't punish the group at large; in the early 2000s Benedict lifted the punishment after they said they were sorry and wouldn't do it again…so it makes sense Leo's going nuclear and just giving them all the boot.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89c%C3%B4ne_consecrations

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Vatican cracks down on a traditionalist group by excommunicating its bishops [View all] dalton99a Yesterday OP

Take Down Opus Dei next! Chasstev365 Yesterday #1

+1 dalton99a Yesterday #2

They're dangerous to the general population. rubbersole 23 hrs ago #8

Beat me to it. He does that, and ill be back in there the following sunday with a hundred bucks in my hand. Volaris 23 hrs ago #11

Shady Vance would have to find another religion again. wnylib 13 hrs ago #44

Excommunicate Opus Dei SCOTUS and JD Vance next... hlthe2b Yesterday #3

This! 👆👆👆👆👆 SheltieLover Yesterday #6

ABSOLUTELY! Jilly_in_VA 20 hrs ago #26

This MustLoveBeagles 14 hrs ago #41

Awww, thank you MustLoveBeagles! hlthe2b 13 hrs ago #43

Dang. This Pope might get me back into a church Prairie Gates Yesterday #4

A teaching moment for the US left. If you have the power and you're negotiating with assholes, you're losing. harumph Yesterday #5

Religious fundamentalists of all faiths are made of the same cloth. sop Yesterday #7

this. fanatics (of all breed and stripe) are dangerous stopdiggin 23 hrs ago #10

I have long believed... GiqueCee 22 hrs ago #14

Vance and the KKKatholic Kourt. usonian 23 hrs ago #9

Damn! GiqueCee 22 hrs ago #12

I think it's in Italian, not Latin. nt Wednesdays 22 hrs ago #15

I thought... GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #16

Italian is the working and administrative language of the Vatican. dalton99a 21 hrs ago #17

AHA! GiqueCee 21 hrs ago #19

why a dead language is good for enduring concepts rampartd 16 hrs ago #36

Good point! GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #37

it is why so much law and medicine still use a dead language. rampartd 16 hrs ago #38

Dead languages evolve too. hunter 15 hrs ago #39

mea culpa rampartd 14 hrs ago #42

I know Latin from biology not the law. hunter 12 hrs ago #46

Go Leo! Crack that whip! liberalla 22 hrs ago #13

A good reminder that authoritarians use authority to preserve the system that preserves them 31j20b3 21 hrs ago #18

Non-authoritarians occasionally have to resort to hard leveraging of rules and options harumph 21 hrs ago #20

Yes, especially in a case like this wherein a handful out of thousands of priests 31j20b3 21 hrs ago #21

Oh, I see where you're coming from. harumph 20 hrs ago #22

I suppose it's also a question of shoe-size 31j20b3 20 hrs ago #23

Agreed. That's often the case. harumph 20 hrs ago #24

Yep, and our troubling problem is the few caught on a very long time ago 31j20b3 20 hrs ago #25

sspx : this schism goes back to like 1970 rampartd 13 hrs ago #45

Would a Catholic church named St Pius X be part of that group or not doyou think? mahina 8 hrs ago #48

i've never knowingly met any of these guys, or any opus dei for that matter rampartd 7 hrs ago #49

You don't understand that this fascist group is the one blm 20 hrs ago #30

Could use a proper name for "this fascist group" just so I can be sure 31j20b3 20 hrs ago #31

TFP. Tradition-Family-Property. They are like the commoner base for Opus Dei elites. blm 20 hrs ago #33

Thanks. I didn't know about TFP, but I'm aware of pfople pushing that 31j20b3 19 hrs ago #34

Exciting times bucolic_frolic 20 hrs ago #27

Good. blm 20 hrs ago #28

Not just the bishops - anyone who "habitually participates" in the society and "formally shares its positions" muriel_volestrangler 20 hrs ago #29

This isn't even the first time SSPX has pulled these shenanigans... sir pball 20 hrs ago #32

Exactly. I was horrified when Benedict removed restrictions on them. blm 19 hrs ago #35

Good. hunter 15 hrs ago #40

I was hoping Vance had been Baptized into Catholicism by SSPX. pat_k 12 hrs ago #47