"THE VATICAN has described the Protestant and Orthodox faiths as 'not proper Churches' in a document issued with the full authority of the Pope.
Anglican leaders reacted with dismay, accusing the Roman Catholic Church of paradoxical behaviour. They said that the new 16-page document outling the 'defects' of non-Catholic churches constituted a major obstacle to ecumenism.
The document said that the Orthodox church suffered from a ‘wound’ because it did not recognise the primacy of the Pope. The wound was ‘still more profound’ in Protestant denominations, it added.
It was ‘difficult to see how the title of `Church could possibly be attributed to them’, said the statement from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Roman Catholicism was 'the one true Church of Christ.'"
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