Maintenance in progress

the transalpine redemptorists at golgotha monastery on papa stronsay, orkney, consecrated a bishop in defiance of repeated vatican warnings; rome declared michael mary guilty of schism and excommunicated him, and he asserted no papal mandate was required. the community has now rejected vatican authority outright — a harder break than the sspx — while facing separate allegations of torture, abuse and bullying after the death of a young monk. a formal schism from a remote island community is a small event with old structural weight.

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