Nothing new under the sun:That's because, while he regards the Pope as the boss, and has welcomed the Pope's visit to these shores next year in the usual grovelling terms (the "joy" of "all" Anglicans), the Pope obviously regards him as insignificant - not worthy of advance notice of an action that basically and potentially takes traditionalist Catholic priests en masse out of his Church and short circuits the female bishops decision making and the whole matter of the Covenant and Anglican identity.
Nothing at all:
The first step towards unity is that our brother the patriarch of Constantinople should recognize the primacy and dignity of the apostolic see...and correct his former obstinancy. The causes of diversity of faith and custom between Greeks and Latins cannot be removed unless the members are first united at the head. For how can questions be discussed between dissenting and antagonistic bodies when one refuses to obey or agree with the other?
Pope Paschal II to the Emperor Alexius, 1112. Quoted in Southern,
Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages. Southern follows this quote with an explanation:
In other words debate is futile unless we first agree who is right; and then of course it is unnecessary.
Something like that.
Nothing new under the sun:
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