Word: eucharist
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...XIII's 1896 decree that Canterbury ordinations are "absolutely null and void." If accomplished, that change would clear an important reunification hurdle. But as part of the arrangement, Willebrands asked for a formal Anglican statement of agreement with Rome on all essential doctrines regarding the nature of the Eucharist and the role of the priesthood in celebrating...
...discrimination arises from the Roman Catholic assertion that ordination gives the church's priests the power to invoke in the Eucharist a real, mysterious re-enactment of the body-and-blood "sacrifice" of Jesus Christ. Beginning in 1552, argued the papal bull, the ordination ritual in Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer's Book of Common Prayer erased all mention of the priestly commission to offer sacrifice. Without such a commission, Leo ruled, in Roman Catholic terms the Anglican ordinations were defective both in the form (words) of the ritual and in the intention of the original celebrants of the rite...
...collapsed several times because we were afraid of the term civil disobedience and because we did not want to appear partisan." But there was no way to mask their target. One bishop even went so far as to say that Marcos should be denied the right to receive Holy Eucharist...
John Paul II was the first Pope to worship at Anglicanism's Canterbury Cathedral, the first to preach in a Lutheran church, and the first in a millennium to attend the Eucharist in Istanbul alongside Orthodoxy's Ecumenical Patriarch. But despite these gestures of friendship, substantive progress toward Christian unity has nearly come to a halt during John Paul II's reign. Last week a front-page editorial in the Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano, seemed to signal that there is no prospect of structural reunion of the churches so long as this Pope's views prevail...
...trend that aids such an ambition is the acute shortage of priests. Already thousands of women fill in by doing chaplains' work, counseling, Bible readings, indeed, all the tasks of a priest except consecrating the Eucharist, hearing confession, confirming members and administering last rites. Some feminists complain that such assistants are underpaid and exploited, but the more important criticism is that they are still forbidden to conduct the central rituals of the faith...