What to know about the excommunicated Catholic sect known as SSPX and its ties to Kansas

By: Grace Hills

Outlets: Kansas Reflector

Published: July 20, 2026

Words: 856

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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One of the most sweeping excommunications in worldwide Catholic history is concentrated in the small, northeast Kansas town of St. Marys, where the ultra traditionalist sect Society of St. Pius X has built a huge church and taken over local politics.

In early July, the Vatican declared that priests, deacons, bishops, and lay people who formally adhere to the teachings of the Society of St. Pius X, or SSPX, are excommunicated.

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