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I’m not opposed to the Lutheran and Catholic Churches joining together once again, but this article itself proves why it is impossible, it shows the pope standing next to a pagan imposter who clearly is not Christian.
It isn’t worth destroying the dialogue with the other holy sees for some Episocopagan woman up in Sweden to mock Christianity. Highest rank she could have in a actual Christian church by default is Deacon, certainly never priest, much less Bishop nor Archbishop. Her congregation, nor her nation, has the capacity to promote her to such a role.
If the Pope does this, there will be no further dialogue with the Greeks, Russians, Coptics, the Ethiopians will shun us, the antiochians will too. It us a fundamental rule, it isn’t up to negotiations or revaluation by feminists, it is the way it is, period. It doesn’t change. If the Catholic Church accepts her as a arch bishop, means all our bishops accept their bishops as fully legitimate and in the fold, all their priests, etc. Some of the bishops aren’t like the others- zero negotiation on this. If it is attempted, you’ll see a mass Exodus of Catholics to one of the remaining legitimate holy sees who preserved the apostolic system of succession. It isn’t the option of some crazy woman to decide otherwise. She can go join some radical Gnostic group if she wants to play priest, it isn’t what Christians do. We had the same system for 2000 years, we aren’t about to change it cause a couple of Swedes went cross eyed and got confused.