Vatican to Anglicans: No Women Bishops
August 16, 2006
by Grant Swank

Female clergy and condoning homosexuality are the two obstacles in the way of closer ties between the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches.

The Vatican has warned the Church of England that if the latter proceeds with women as bishops, unity between the two groups will be "unreachable."

Anglicanism is close in worship style and liturgy acceptance to traditional Roman Catholicism. However, when it comes to the increasing liberalism of Anglicanism, the Vatican pulls away from so-called ecumenical alliances. The Vatican won’t budge on the two matters stated above.

Although at the grassroots there is debate concerning homosexual clergy and tolerance for same within Catholicism, in Rome there is no tolerance. the rest