The Archbishopette of Canterbury? July 22, 2008
Posted by Brendan in Religion.trackback
Now that the Church of England has followed the Americans and Canadians into another clean break with Apostolic Tradition by authorizing the “ordination” of female “bishops”, it’s dead certain that a time will come when a bishopette will be tapped to occupy the See of Canterbury.
Which begs the question: what will Rome do in that eventuality?
Despite the fact that the Roman Church does not recognize the validity of Anglican Orders (male or female), Pope John Paul liked to engage in a bit of hand-holding with the Archlayman of Canterbury. (To his credit, Pope Benedict is a bit cooler with the current primate.)
So when 
is replaced by
will the Anglican Primate still get invited to the Apostolic Palace for tea and light refreshments? Or is this a tar baby that even John Paul wouldn’t get within a hundred miles of?
Maybe it’s time to appoint a Catholic bishop to the See of Canterbury and, ecumenism be damned, raise him to the dignity of Primate of England (And throw in the Red Hat for good measure). After all, our separated brethren already established such a precedent when the Church of Ireland (sic) installed an Anglican clergyman as Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland.
That position had, of course, already been filled by St. Patrick’s legitimate successor.
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Ok, I admit that I wrote this entire entry just to have an excuse to re post that pic of Her Grace.
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