At a meeting in the Vatican, the Holy See proposes a path of theological dialogue aimed at safeguarding the “minimum requirements” for full communion with the Catholic Church, provided the
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At a meeting in the Vatican, the Holy See proposes a path of theological dialogue aimed at safeguarding the “minimum requirements” for full communion with the Catholic Church, provided the Society suspends the episcopal ordinations it announced in early February without papal approval. Indeed, the Holy See reiterated that the ordination of bishops without a mandate from the Roman Pontiff – who, according to Pastor Aeternus (1870), holds supreme, full, universal, immediate, and direct ordinary power – would entail “a decisive rupture of ecclesial communion,” namely “a schism.”
