Some traditionalist Catholics recognize the pope, and others do not. Traditionalist Catholics are part of a movement within the Roman Catholic Church that seeks a restoration of many rituals and practices that were restricted after the Second Vatican Council (1962–65). Many traditionalist Catholics have engaged in these practices, such as attending a traditional Latin mass, while remaining in full communion with the church. Others have entered into outright schism (a break in the unity of the church) by such actions as rejecting the pope’s authority and declaring the Second Vatican Council as heretical. These latter groups are sedevacantists, from the Latin sede vacante (“empty seat”).
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