Stupid things religious people say

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

"Just as it is with all the troubles in this world, it's actually the fault of women why Christian denominations (churches) are divided."

You guessed it, it's another edition of Quotes by Popes.

Dec. 24, 1988

[Los Angeles Times] Pope John Paul II reiterated this week that the ordination of women in the Anglican Church poses “serious obstacles” to relations with the Roman Catholic Church.

In a year-end address to cardinals, the Pope, speaking with “sincere pain,” deplored a resolution adopted by the world’s Anglican bishops in August.

John Paul said the action “poses serious obstacles to that progress in reciprocal reconciliation, which in the course of recent decades has arrived at such promising results.”

The Pope had previously spoken out against the ordination of women in the Anglican Communion during a message July 20 to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. John Paul warned then of “new problems” that could upset the path of Christian unity, a reference Vatican sources interpreted as referring to women’s ordination.

He called on the Anglicans to try to avoid the “painful and deplorable consequences” to relations with the Catholic Church and inside the Anglican Communion. He said the resolution failed to consider the ecumenical dimensions of ordaining women priests.

At the same time, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a statement that said Rev. Barbara C. Harris’ election “will increase our difficulties in an unlimited way” and that the presence of Anglican female bishops would be “a hindrance to (the) process of reconciliation, one we want to see go forward” between the two faiths.

In his year-end address, the Pope said a second cloud over the church this year was “the vain attempt” to ward off a schism by traditionalist Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

https://ecumenism.net/1988/12/pope-decri...ishops.htm

That’s not particularly stupid when you consider the source. Christian denominations have schism-ed over a lot less than the ordination of women.

And what was going on in JPII’s head that he thought an Anglican-Catholic reconciliation was on the table at all? Better relations isn’t remotely the same as reconciliation.

Boru