The Catholic Church’s New Schism

At an open-air Mass in Écône, Switzerland, before a crowd of about 16,000 people, four priests became bishops last month. The men professed their fidelity to tradition against “heretics, schismatics, and those who rebel against our Holy Father.” They did so knowing full well that, in becoming bishops, they lacked something the Catholic Church deems essential: permission from the pope. All four of these men are members of the Society of Saint Pius X, or SSPX, an arch-traditionalist group of…