An Anglican female “archbishop” offered blessings at the tomb of St. Peter, participated in liturgical prayer, and shared clerical functions as if her orders were valid.

Pope Leo XIV just met with “Archbishop” Sarah Mullally at the Vatican. Public prayer. Shared observances. Equal footing.

John-Henry Westen calls it a theological and liturgical breach of the highest order — because Catholic doctrine, defined definitively in Apostolicae Curae, does not recognize Anglican orders as valid. Period. And the Church has never recognized women as capable of receiving holy orders.

But this wasn’t just a meeting. It was optics. Symbolism. A public statement that flies in the face of the constant, magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church.

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April 27, 2026