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SSPX: Clearing Up Confusion | FORWARD BOLDLY

July 22, 2026

Confusion lingers.

Weeks after Rome handed down its decree of excommunication against the SSPX for its illicit consecration of bishops, questions remain:

Whom does the decree excommunicate? Just the bishops? The clergy? The laity attached to the SSPX?

Did the decree lawfully revoke the faculties to offer marriage and confession?

What is the effect of the SSPX's recent canonical appeal? Does it actually suspend the excommunications under Canon 1353, as they claim?

Attorney and Catholic apologist John Salza joins me on this episode to clear up the confusion.

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