First ‘internal trouble’ for Leo XIV, who has been calling for unity since the beginning of his pontificate. Indeed, a schism within the Catholic Church is now likely, with the separation of the ‘rib’ of the Lefebvrians, the followers of the late French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
This would be the consequence – despite the Vatican’s call to order – of the ceremony for the consecration of new bishops on 1 July 2026 in Écône in Switzerland, where Lefebvre consecrated new followers within the traditionalist Catholic movement he founded in opposition to the reforms desired by the Second Vatican Council. A minimal tear in itself, if referred to numbers, but one that would nevertheless open a rift in old Europe, which for Prevost is an area of Catholicism to be recovered and relaunched (the announcement of his trip to France in September is confirmation of this).
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