There's a rebel group in the Catholic Church who have defied the Pope | ABC NEWS Loop

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The Vatican has excommunicated priests and lay Catholics who are part of a breakaway right-wing Catholic group that ordained bishops without Pope Leo's approval. The Society ​of St Pius X (SSPX) celebrates the ancient Latin mass and opposes the modernising reforms of the Catholic Church, which it considers to be rife with heresies and errors. The ultra-traditionalist group, which denies key church teachings, cannot officiate marriages or hear confessions validly, the Vatican has decreed. Four new bishops from a breakaway Catholic group dedicated to the old Latin mass were ordained in the Alpine village of Écône, Switzerland, in defiance of an appeal by Pope Leo XIV. Top Vatican Cardinal Pietro Parolin said the forbidden ceremony had "deeply wounded" the unity of the 1.4-billion-member Church, and said "this is in itself ​a schismatic act". Grace McKinnon for ABC News Loop Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated. #ABCNEWS #ABCNEWSAustralia

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