Sedevacantist Scottish monks perform illicit consecration of bishop in spite of warnings of schism

A sedevacantist group of monks in Scotland hosted an illicit consecration of a “bishop” on July 25 in spite of repeated warnings that doing so would constitute a schismatic act and a break from the Catholic Church. The Transalpine Redemptorists, or the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer, livestreamed the counterfeit ceremony from their monastery on Papa Stronsay, an island that forms part of the Orkney archipelago in Scotland. Aberdeen Bishop Hugh Gilbert had warned in a pastoral letter on…