So the Vatican has now officially responded to the unsanctioned consecration of bishops by the ultraconservative FSSPX (itself an automatic excommunication), and they're basically taking the nuclear option.
Not only are they officially recognising it as a schism, but they are saying that _all members_ including lay members who stay with the SSPX are considered to be excommunicated, and _any_ sacraments assisted by their ministers to be illicit, including marriage.
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