[altura]

As long as the conservatives cling to banning priestesses (as they call them) the chances for reconciliation are nil.

[No_Outcome_But_Victory]

As long as the conservatives cling to banning priestesses (as they call them) the chances for reconciliation are nil.

Which conservatives? Anglican orthodox traditionalists don't ordain women. The Roman Catholic Church "has no authority" to ordain them according to the pope.

[Campion]

Well, we're clinging to the ancient tradition of the Church of Christ. You're clinging to the zeitgeist. A hundred years from now, the zeitgeist will have passed you by, and the ancient tradition of the Church will be the same as it is now.

But priestesses aren't the innovation that started things down the wrong road ... that would be the 39 Articles, and, after that, the Lambeth Conference of 1930. Priestesses, and the consecration of Vicky Gene, flow logically, and almost inevitably, out of the earlier errors. Even some Anglican prelates have admitted as much.