Catholic - Anglican Relations Reach New Low ( Homosexuality & Women Priests )

London Times ^ | 8/1/2008 | Ruth Gledhill

[kellynla]

Cardinal Kasper’s address to the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops was straight and to the point.

LONDON (London Times) - The Roman Catholic Church has finally ended all hope that Anglican priestly orders will ever be recognized as valid.

In an address to the Lambeth Conference of 670 Anglican bishops from around the world, the cardinal who heads the Council for Christian Unity said the dialogue between Anglicans and Catholics would be irrevocably "changed" as a result of the ordination of women and the recent vote to go ahead with consecrating women bishops.

Cardinal Walter Kasper also reiterated the Vatican's stance that homosexuality is a "disordered" condition.

In a well-attended closed session at the conference at the University of Kent University, Canterbury, Cardinal Kasper said relations between the two churches are now deeply compromised. He urged bishops to consider their shared inheritance, which he said was "worthy of being consulted and protected."

In 1896 Pope Leo XI issued a Bull, Apostolicae Curae, in which he condemned all Anglican orders as "absolutely null and utterly void". Soon after that bishops from both churches began talks in an attempt to achieve reconciliation between the two churches, separated since the Reformation in the 16th century. When Archbishop Michael Ramsey visited Pope Paul VI in 1966, hopes were unprecedentedly high that some means could be found of achieving full,visible unity.

Even today, the churches work closely together at the grass roots. Rome is understood to be looking at way of receiving as a collective body the Anglo-Catholics in England who might want to leave the Church as a result of women bishops. A similar formula is being sought for traditional Anglicans in the United States who have already left the Episcopal Church.

[kellynla]

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[SevenofNine]

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[NewJerseyJoe]

Apostolicae Curae
On the Nullity of Anglican Orders
His Holiness Pope Leo XIII
September 15, 1896

[raynearhood]

Catholic - Anglican Relations Reach New Low ( Homosexuality & Women Priests )
London Times ^ | 8/1/2008 | Ruth Gledhill

Posted on Saturday, August 02, 2008 5:56:21 PM by kellynla

Cardinal Kasper’s address to the Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops was straight and to the point.

HAHAHAHA! Sorry, I thought it was the perfect teaser sentence for the article. Kudos to the author!!!

God Bless.

[marshmallow]

Following recent events, the headline could equally have read "Anglican-Anglican relations reach new low". Given the wide divisions within the Anglican Church, the official Anglican-Catholic dynamic is now essentially irrelevant. That's probably disconcerting for those who've invested countless man-hours in the field of "ecumenism" and inter-church relations but sometimes God brings people together in unexpected ways. No need for hand-wringing. There is plenty of good news. The inexorable march towards lunacy in Canterbury, has initiated the homeward march towards Catholicism of those souls who've retained their sanity and who still love truth and sound doctrine.

The drunken embrace of women bishops and homosexuality by the Anglicans has done more for true ecumenism than years of meetings and dialog ever did. Oh happy fault!!

[jimbobaby]

Well I guess they need to breakaway like they did in Africa.

[Redbob]

We Anglicans still aren’t too crazy about pedohilia, though...

[kaehurowing]

Why would any Christians want to have anything to do with the Gay Church?

[horse_doc]

We Anglicans still aren’t too crazy about pedohilia, though...

If gay priests are o.k., then pedophilia is just, "youth outreach".

No harm, no foul.

[Radl]

Why would any “Christian” say something so rotten?

[vladimir998]

Many Anglicans are still in their parishes because they love them, love their pastors, etc. This Anglican crack-up has to be heartbreaking for everyone involved. I hope some good comes out of it. I would love to see Anglicans reconciled with the Church. It could happen for many thousands of them if not more.

[Radl]

Sorry, I replied to the wrong post.