Burnt Sugar, Dead Spice, Nothing is Nice

There are several groups of traditionalist Catholics that have been pissed since something called Vatican 2, which updated a bunch of practices and official positions, and one group of those is called The Society of Saint Pius X. Their leader was excommunicated in 1988 for making bishops (?) without permission.

Those bishops are now hella old, so they decided to make some more, and the pope said that was automatic excommunication. (excommunication matters both as a matter of theology (sacraments performed aren't valid) and economics (the church stops giving them money, can take back property, etc))

Pope said don't, and they did, and now: schism?????

Apparently they claim not to be sedevacantists ("pope's not valid"), but idek what else you would call this.

Article from the Vatican press office (calling them Lefebvrians is apparently itself a diss, as that is the name of the founder and emphasizes the cult of personality aspect)

Excellent bluesky thread liveblogging the consecration (must be logged in, I think? Screenshots are highlights)

Tl;dr, from the replies to that thread

💀"Why are you big?" 🌿"I don't…I don't know!"

"When it comes to pizza, America took the recipe and said 'what if we made it illegal for your arteries to survive this?'"

"American pizza, that's not amore. That's a full emotional support system covered in cheese."

"In America they give you something that looks like it survived a car crash with happiness. It's thick, it's greasy, it's disrespectful. And that's why it's amazing."

"Italian pizza is romance but American pizza is self care. That's therapy. That's a God cheat day."