First It Was Coca-Cola’s Turn, Telling Us that Only Coke’s the Real Thing; Now it’s the Pope’s Turn: If it Isn't RC, Don’t Touch It ‘Cause It ‘Ain’t’ the Real Thing!
TIMESONLINE: 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”. If it isn’t Roman Catholic then it’s not a proper Church, Pope tells Christians (more)

Mark Alexander