From Tablet-
Leo XIII’s remarks that Anglican orders are “absolutely
null and utterly void” have been a major stumbling block to
Catholic-Anglican unity
One
of the Vatican’s top legal minds has opened the way for a revision of
the Catholic position on Anglican orders by stressing they should not be
written off as “invalid.”
In a recently published book,
Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, President of the Pontifical Council
for Legislative Texts, calls into question Pope Leo XIII’s 1896 papal
bull that Anglican orders are “absolutely null and utterly void.”
“When someone is ordained in
the Anglican Church and becomes a parish priest in a community, we
cannot say that nothing has happened, that everything is ‘invalid’,” the
cardinal says in volume of papers and discussions that took place in
Rome as part of the “Malines Conversations,” an ecumenical forum.
“This about the life of a person and what he has given …these things are so very relevant!”
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