VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic ​group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new ‌bishops without consent from Pope Leo, warning the action would incur excommunication from the 1.4-billion-member Church. In the first known threat of the Church’s most severe penalty during Leo’s papacy, the Vatican’s doctrinal office told the Swiss-based Society ​of St. Pius X any ordination of bishops would create a “schism”, or formal rupture ​with the pope. The planned ordination ceremony would mark “a grave offence against God ⁠and entail the excommunication established by the Church,” Cardinal Victor Fernandez, head of the office, ​said in a statement. The Vatican on Wednesday urged a breakaway Catholic ​group dedicated to the old Latin mass to cancel plans to ordain new ‌bishops without consent from Pope Leo. AP A Swiss Guard stands as dark clouds hang over, during Pope Leo XIV’s weekly general audience in St.…