[StJacques]

I know so many Episcopalians who are such good and moral people that I cannot but imagine that this event is going to wound them deeply.

And as a Roman Catholic may I say that what we are seeing in the Episcopal Communion gives us every reason to be even more vigilant with those members of our own church hierarchy who have not shown proper rigor in maintaining Catholic doctrine. The recent conference of American Catholic bishops failed to own up to this pressing need on the issue of Catholic public officials who support public policies directly in contradiction of Church beliefs last week and, given that they took a hard line against capital punishment not too long ago, we have reason to ask in what direction they intend to take the rest of us. I'm not comfortable with what I'm seeing right now and it may be about time for a good old-fashioned open war over doctrine in which the laity tell the bishops to come back to the Church rather than the reverse.

[xzins]

It sounds like the ECUSA is going to be cut off from Anglicanism.

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[Aquinasfan]

But the ordination of female priests only affects the status of those priests. The ordination of a woman as bishop affects the status of all of the priests that she ordains, both female and male. For millions of Anglicans, the priests ordained by female bishops are literally not priests. Who will keep track of who is who?

To clarify, Fr. Neuhaus isn't saying that Episcopal priestly ordinations are otherwise objectively valid.