Female Episcopal bishop could strain Catholic ties
BY RICHARD N. OSTLING
AP RELIGION WRITER
July 8, 2006

A potentially historic speech about women that received little media fanfare was made two weeks before America's Episcopal Church elected Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as its leader in June.
The speaker was Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican's top liaison with non-Catholic Christians. He addressed the Church of England's bishops and certain female priests.

Catholic and Anglican officials have spent four decades working toward shared Communion.

Mincing no words, Kasper said that goal of restoring full relations "would realistically no longer exist" if Anglicanism's mother church in England were to consecrate female bishops. the rest