How nice of them to jump in where they have no business going. I'm sure the Anglicans are devastated that the Vatican, a hyper corrupt irrelevant body which they wisely left hundreds of years ago, disapproves of their personal decision not to treat their female ministers as second class citizens.
The move by the Anglican Church's General Synod "is a rift to the apostolic tradition" of ordaining only men as bishops, the Vatican said in a statement, and is another obstacle to reconciliation between Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
Evidently they don't interpret the Bible in a way that needlessly excludes half the population (and many of the most active church members).
The catholic church has never really been interested in reconciliation with anyone. That would require both sides to make sacrifices and that's never been their intention. They want all other churches to come together, declare they were wrong, and bow before the Pope.
Some traditionalists have threatened to abandon the Anglican Church for the Roman Catholic Church if women become bishops. Several hundred Anglican priests made that move when women were first ordained 16 years ago.
You gotta do what you gotta do. If you bow down to extremists they're always going to keep making demands. Better to lose them now than wait until you've given up half the church and they leave anyway.
David Holding, a traditionalist church member, said he does not object to female bishops, but "there must be a proper provision made for those who can't go along with it."
You can't start creating situations in any organization where people can circumvent the hierarchy just because they want to. What's to prevent racists from refusing to obey a black bishop? Creating special classes of bishop for women, which are essentially inferior to all other bishops, is worse than refusing to ordain women bishops at all. Who is going to respect a female bishop who has no authority over her churches?
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