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To: vladimir998
It's not the first time that post-Vatican popes have recognized invalid orders as being valid.

Archbishop Welby, who is visiting Rome with his wife, wore, as is customary for visiting archbishops, an episcopal ring given to Archbishop Michael Ramsey by Pope Paul VI in 1966.

Vlad, in the uppermost picture, Pope St. John Paul II is kissing the episcopal ring that Pope Paul VI had given to the faux bishop, Michael Ramsey.


22 posted on 08/10/2014 11:04:07 AM PDT by ebb tide
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To: ebb tide

The orders of the above three Anglican bishops were not valid and were not recognized as such by anyone in the Vatican. John Paul II kissing an Anglican’s ring is no more a validation of his orders than kissing a Qur’an is a validation of its contents.


23 posted on 08/10/2014 3:46:03 PM PDT by vladimir998
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