Speaking Of Idols

The Pope explains how the Protestant churches ,oops I mean "ecclesial Communities" , are not only not "The Church", but are not even churches.

FIFTH QUESTION

Why do the texts of the Council and those of the Magisterium since the Council not use the title of “Church” with regard to those Christian Communities born out of the Reformation of the sixteenth century?

RESPONSE

According to Catholic doctrine, these Communities do not enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders, and are, therefore, deprived of a constitutive element of the Church. These ecclesial Communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic Mystery[19] cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called “Churches” in the proper sense[20].

I wonder if the "Holy Father" will backtrack as much after this as after his earlier outreach to the Muslims.
It is rather amusing though; the use of the word genuine within the context of what catholics consider the Eucharistic Mystery.
And I didn't know "sacramental" was Latin for gay.



To think people wonder why I don't find Romney's Mormonism a big deal.