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Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and Archbishop Michael Ramsey
If I've got it right, the Catholic Church rejects the Anglican Ordination of Women because:
1) It violates the historical theology of the church.
2) It violates the Episcopal unity/collegiality of the ages which is premised in Christ himself.
3) It will prevent any hoped for full communion with one another.
4) It will destroy consensus.
The article mentioned early discussions between Catholics and Anglicans, Catholics and Lutherans, and Catholics and Methodists. They went on to say that the Archbishop of Canterbury held a special status because of that position's significance.
I can understand the Lutheran dialogue since Lutherans were out of Catholicism.
Even though I'm an ordained Methodist elder, I can't guess the basis of the Methodist dialogue unless it was our historic relationship to Anglicanism. Perhaps it was just dialogue for its own sake.
It must be dead, however, because we ordain female bishops. In my experience (Judith Craig in Ohio), something was violated.
I consider her among the anti-bishops/pseudo-bishops (pick one or both.)
The Catholic Church should abandon dialogue with the Anglicans, save for those groups that share Catholic theology. The tiny Continuing Anglican groups are a good possibility.
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