I en artikkel i the Catholic Herald har kardinal Kasper uttalt seg ganske tydelig om Den Anglikanske kirke, og om hva den bør gjøre bl.a. med hensyn til kvinnelige biskoper. De bør ikke innføre kvinnelige biskoper (og ikke tillate homofilt samliv) for velger de bort den felles (katolske) tradisjonen de delvis står i:
The Vatican has said that the time has come for the Anglican Church to choose between Protestantism and the ancient churches of Rome and Orthodoxy.
Speaking on the day that the Archbishop of Canterbury met Benedict XVI in Rome, Cardinal Walter Kasper, the president of the Pontifical Council of Christian Unity, said it was time for Anglicanism to «clarify its identity».
He told the Catholic Herald: «Ultimately, it is a question of the identity of the Anglican Church. Where does it belong?
«Does it belong more to the churches of the first millennium, Catholic and Orthodox, or does it belong more to the Protestant churches of the 16th century? At the moment it is somewhere in between, but it must clarify its identity now and that will not be possible without certain difficult decisions.»
He said he hoped that the Lambeth conference, an event which brings the worldwide Anglican Communion together every 10 years, would be the deciding moment for Anglicanism.
Cardinal Kasper, who has been asked to speak at the Lambeth Conference by the Archbishop of Canterbury, said: «We hope that certain fundamental questions will be clarified at the conference so that dialogue will be possible.
«We shall work and pray that it is possible, but I think that it is not sustainable to keep pushing decision-making back because it only extends the crisis.»
His comments will be interpreted as an attempt by Rome to put pressure on the Church of England not to proceed with the ordination women bishops or to sanction gay partnerships, both serious obstacles to unity.
Father Z har også skrevet om dette, og så langt er det 68 kommentarer til hans innlegg.