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Justin McLellan

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As seen in: National Catholic Reporter, Flipboard, Catholic News Service, America Magazine, National Catholic Register, Free Republic, AINA, UCA News Podcast, The Boston Pilot, Franciscan Media., Our Sunday Visitor and
Covers:  I'm interested in religion, climate, culture, politics, and the spaces in which those worlds overlap.
Vatican correspondent for the fully independent @NCRonline | Journalist accredited @holyseepress | Go Irish @NotreDame

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Ecuadorian American journalist based in Rome. Writing on religion and whatever interests me.

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Reporter's Notebook: Witnessing the SSPX schism in the Swiss Alps

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By Justin McLellan Verified
| National Catholic Reporter Verified
More than a rupture, the scene surrounding the most significant schism in the Catholic Church's recent memory felt like a reunion. That was what I kept feeling on the hillside grounds of the Society of St. Pius X's international seminary in Écône, Switzerland, where 16,000+ traditionalist Catholics gathered July 1 to witness the illicit consecration of four new bishops in open defiance of Pope Leo XIV.
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Pope Leo visits Lampedusa, migrant hotspot, on July 4

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By Justin McLellan Verified, Joachim Pham
| National Catholic Reporter Verified
The Catholic Church's first U.S.-born pope spent the 250th anniversary of his home nation's founding on an Italian island that has become one of Europe's most critical migration flashpoints, presenting care for migrants as a central tenet of the Christian faith and warning that religion must never be used to justify discrimination.
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Vatican declares SSPX bishops, priests schismatic, says lay faithful risk excommunication

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By Justin McLellan Verified, Michael Sean Winters Verified
| National Catholic Reporter Verified
As hundreds of lace-laden priests processed into an ornate Mass July 2 on a hillside in the Swiss Alps, the bishops leading the line, their clergy and the 6,000 lay faithful bowed in prayer around them were declared members of a schismatic group no longer in communion with the Catholic Church.
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