Wrong, again. The effect of giving a pectoral cross to a "bishop" in a heretical "church" is not "nil". It is cause for scandal and it confuses weak Catholics like some on this forum, to think Anglican clergymen have valid orders.
Pope Francis gave a rosary to Obama (who happened to immediately passed it off to Pelosi), but he did not give Obama a pectoral cross.
Pope Benedict never gave pectoral crosses to lay heads of state, why did he choose to give one to a heretic who dressed like a bishop?
“Wrong, again.”
No, I was right. That won’t change.
“The effect of giving a pectoral cross to a “bishop” in a heretical “church” is not “nil”.”
In its effect upon the status of the person receiving it is. The “archbishop of Canterbury” is no more of a real bishop than he was last year. The Protestant receiving a rosary is no more of a baptized and confirmed Catholic than he was before receiving the rosary. That is simply irrefutable.
“It is cause for scandal and it confuses weak Catholics like some on this forum, to think Anglican clergymen have valid orders.”
Nope. First, few Catholics here “weak Catholics”. Second, only an idiot would think a gift of a cross means someone giving it must think the one receiving it is already in possession of valid orders when he, in fact, knows otherwise and acts otherwise by supporting the strictures underlying Anglicanorum coetibus.
But keep embarrassing yourself anyway.