Pope's Leo's effusive hospitality does little to engage with and confront reality.
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Is ecumenical respect a one-way street? There was a great deal of respect at the meeting between Pope Paul 6th and Archbishop Michael Ramsey in March 1966 marked a moment of proximity on the trajectory of the possible return of schismatic Anglicanism to the mother Church that may never have been closer.
Anglicanism had experienced a deep wave of nostalgia for the sacrament of the Mass which gave birth to the Anglo Catholic movement. Rome had begin the process of negotiation with the spirit of the age that was to move it closer to the novelties of the Reformation Churches in the Second Vatican Council.
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Nearly sixty years later, the trajectory of Anglicanism has been torn out of orbit and moved not only beyond the reconciling reach of the most hospitable of ecumenical gestures from Rome, but in the judgement of many, beyond the boundaries of orthodox Christianity itself.
Sarah Mullally is not only the first woman to be ‘produced’ by the appointments system of the Anglican establishment, but she represents a rebuke to orthodox Christianity not only in her person, but also in her convictions.
She is the expression of a Church that has drunk deep from the rage of contempt and antipathy that is an aspect of feminism, and carries a full range of progressive views which she imposes on the tradition of the Church like a rebuke.
The right to kill children in the womb is one of those views. The right to promote sterility in adult romantic relations is another.
If she represents the full impetus of secular feminism in its assault on deeply embedded Christian belief and culture which the Catholic Church represents, the Catholic Church should temper the respect it owes to the head of a Protestant denomination with a degree of caution and wariness.
In fact, there was no caution or wariness in Pope Leo’s greeting of the feminist pro-abortion Anglican woman archbishop.
Should there have been? Should niceness and diplomatic politeness have been modified by fidelity to those values Sarah Mullally repudiated?
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