Pope Leo pleads with breakaway Catholic group not to commit 'sin of extreme gravity'

Pope Leo XIV urged the Society of St. Pius X to abandon plans to consecrate four bishops without Vatican approval, calling it a 'sin of extreme gravity' and warning it risks deepening a decades-old split with the Church. The group, which rejects post-Vatican II reforms, claims a 'state of necessity' requires the consecration, echoing a 1988 schismatic act that led to excommunications.