As it happens, they don't recognise Anglican orders now, because the RC position is that the Reformation broke the Apostolic Succession.
Pragmatically, women bishops might make things more difficult - but I'm not even sure of that given that we have women priests already; I don't know whether bishops would be seen as making things worse or not (the EKD in Germany has women bishops, and they seem to mostly rub along OK with the RCs in general). And while I do wish that the divisions between Catholic and Anglican were less, I don't think you can make ecumenism the measure of everything - you have to be true to your own beliefs, or there's no point.
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Date: 2008-05-01 12:41 pm (UTC)Pragmatically, women bishops might make things more difficult - but I'm not even sure of that given that we have women priests already; I don't know whether bishops would be seen as making things worse or not (the EKD in Germany has women bishops, and they seem to mostly rub along OK with the RCs in general). And while I do wish that the divisions between Catholic and Anglican were less, I don't think you can make ecumenism the measure of everything - you have to be true to your own beliefs, or there's no point.