Crisis looms for Pope Leo as splinter sect seeks to ordain far-right bishops (opens in new tab)

Conflict threatens to worsen mounting tensions between the Vatican and rightwing Catholics in the US and globallyA far-right Catholic sect’s plan to ordain its own bishops on the first day of July has placed it on a collision course with the Vatican – posing a possible crisis for Pope Leo a little over a year into his papacy, and straining the Roman Catholic church’s already fraught relationship with rightwing and traditionalist Catholics in the US and elsewhere.Founded in Switzerland in 1970...