Archbishop: Women Clergy Need Not Divide Anglicans, Catholics

Fri, Nov. 20 2009
By Joshua Goldberg
Christian Post Reporter

The head of the worldwide Anglican Communion said Thursday that the issue of women priests and bishops need not divide Anglicans and Catholics.

In a candid speech at the Gregorian University in Rome, Archbishop of Canterbury Dr. Rowan Williams said the Catholic Church’s historic prohibition against women in holy orders had become a “clear obstacle” to Catholic-Anglican unity.

And while he didn’t want to go through the arguments for and against the ordination of women, the Anglican leader challenged the Roman Catholic Church to consider how the prohibition against ordaining women enhances the life of communion and how its breach would compromise the purposes of the Church. the rest