The Vatican said Thursday it had excommunicated priests and lay Catholics belonging to a breakaway right-wing group that ordained bishops without the...

Pope Leo XIV has made a last-ditch appeal to a rebel group of traditionalist Catholics who plan to ordain bishops without his approval in Switzerland on Wednesday.

The Vatican responded Thursday to a traditionalist society that consecrated bishops without the pope's consent, declaring the Society of St. Pius X in schism and excommunicating…