Catholic bishops throughout the United States are instructing people to cease attending Mass celebrated by the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) and to receive licit sacraments instead.
The Vatican formally declared the SSPX to be in schism following the illicit episcopal consecrations of four priests on July 1. The following day, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith declared that the four newly consecrated bishops, and the two SSPX bishops who participated in the consecration, had incurred an automatic excommunication.
