The Vatican warns a breakaway Catholic group that it risks excommunication if it proceeds with plans to ordain new bishops without authorization from Pope Leo. According to the reports, the group is associated with the old Latin Mass tradition and has moved forward with intentions to appoint bishops independently, prompting a formal warning from Rome. The Vatican frames the proposed ordinations as an unlawful act within Church governance, emphasizing that bishop appointments require papal consent. One outlet reports the Vatican also describes the action as a “grave offence against God,” indicating the seriousness of the sanction. Both sources state that the Vatican’s position is that the planned ordinations would place the group in open violation of Church authority and law, and that the consequence could be exclusion from communion through excommunication. The reports do not indicate whether the group will change its plans in response to the warning, but they describe the Vatican’s message as a direct instruction to cancel the ordination plans.