Polarization and Isolation:
What Can Be Expected of the Relationship Between Rome and the SSPX
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| Leo XIV in Castel Gandolfo (July 5, 2025) |
Orthodox Catholics are radically split over the Society of Saint Pius X, the consecration of its new bishops, and the excommunications that followed from Rome. Rather than adding yet another polemical perspective to an already heated debate, this analysis focuses on two key questions: how these events appear within the dynamics of Vatican politics, and what they can be expected to mean for the future of the SSPX, a future that, unfortunately, appears rather bleak at this juncture.
Whatever one's position on whether the excommunications were just or unjust, one thing has become indisputably clear: Rome is now treating the Society as a whole as engaged in schism.
