Reporter's Notebook: Witnessing the SSPX schism in the Swiss Alps
A day after Pope Leo begged the group not to proceed with its illicit bishop consecration, the atmosphere was "a festive scene tinged with relief and charged with righteousness," writes NCR's Justin…
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