Those who worship the Lord must worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. Those are Jesus' words, and it's obvious that those who add willy-nilly things like Assumption, Immaculate Conception, and Coredemption of Mary to the Christian faith are doing nothing different than what Joseph Smith did with the Mormons. They've got their own little book for their sect, and so do the RCs....these "traditions" they've accumulated over the years like barnacles on a ship. (Someone clean the crust off.)
"Holy Orders" have no value. I can probably find by google search in a matter of minutes any number of so-called "priests" who were received lock, stock, barrel, wives & kids from other denominations that were just proclaimed unworthy.
This guy speaks out of both sides of his mouth, he's an unfaithful witness, and to listen to him is wasted air time.
It's time for DrE to call him the anti-christ again. :>)
Can we settle for "semi-christ"? :-)
What you call "crust" we (and the Orthodox, and the other oriental Churches) say is the *esse*, the very life and being of the Church which is part of the divine revelation that Christ gave to the Apostles. We would not THINK of throwing away the belief of the Real Presence of the Eucharist any more than you would throw away a book of the Bible.
The Reformation made its decision to scrap these so-called "accumulations", and by doing so, it wrote itself out of being considered a true Church by the other communities who preserved them. Period. It was as true at the Council of Trent as it is now.
This document is nothing new on that score.
All Protestant ministers and Anglican priests who have been received into the Catholic Church, and who wished to serve as Catholic priests, have been ORDAINED as Catholic priests, after their reception into the Church. Nothing the Pope said has any bearing on those men.