[cloudmountain]

Well. Henry VIII started the ball rolling with his insistence on a son. SIX WIVES, which means that non-Catholics can marry-divorce-remarry until the proverbial cows come home. Liz Taylor had seven husbands. I did look her up. She also became Jewish because she WANTED to, not because husbands were Jewish. Or so she said. No reason for her not to say it like it was.
Anyway, Jesus spoke out quite emphatically about the sin of remarriage: Matthew 19:3-12, Mark 10:2-12
What is UNCLEAR in our Lord's words?

Another cause: the papacy. I wonder why Protestants didn't think that the Church needed an earthly vicar to, er, watch the store, like the pope, coming from the Latin pater, the FIRST pope being St. Peter, from the Latin "petra," or rock? Simon Bar Jonah. A.K.A. St. Peter.

Perhaps there's also some lacking in venerating Mary. We venerate saints and WORSHIP God. I think some Protestants might even think we worship Mary. That shows how little they know about the ancient Jewish culture where the son's mother held a lot of influence in the home.

Also there is the "high" and "low" Anglican church: https://gotquestions.org/high-church-low-church.html
That sounds like high and low Mass to this Catholic.

MAYBE the Anglicans have seen the conversations and meetings between the Roman Catholic Church and all the Orthodoxies and thought that a good idea. Talks can't hurt.
Edicts, yes; talks, no.

[JesusIsLord]

There is no lack of hypocrisy in the Roman Catholic religion. You criticize Protestants regarding divorce but the RC religion divorces married people all the time. You call it annulment, which is a BS word for divorce. I have a Catholic acquaintance who married a Protestant girl in a Lutheran church. They had a beautiful baby boy. My acquaintance decided he was tired of his wife so he started shacking up with a Catholic girl. He eventually got a divorce and later paid for a Catholic annulment. He was well connected and it's amazing what money can buy. Now he has his Catholic family and is an upstanding RC Catholic with all it rights and privileges. In the eyes of the RC religion, his little boy is a bastard. Damned hypocrites!!

Regarding Mary: there is no question that she is to be honored, loved and respected. She is Jesus' earthly mother and holds a place that no other person holds. The problem is that the RC religion has elevated her as our mediator and co-redemtrix. All the crazy RC religion doctrine in the world will not change what non-Catholics see, which is that the RC religion worships Mary. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck ....