LONDON (CNS) — A Vatican cardinal has warned the Church of England that a move to ordain women as bishops would destroy any chance of full unity with the Catholic and Orthodox churches.

Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, said that if the Church of England adopted such a resolution the “shared partaking of the one Lord’s table, which we long for so earnestly, would disappear into the far and ultimately unreachable distance.”

Well, no offense to the Cardinal, but why is the “breaking point” the consecration of women as bishops? Let’s think for a minute about this. Isn’t the consecration of an practicing gay male bishop a unity-destroyer? For that matter, how about a praticing gay male priest (which this guy was before he was a bishop?) How about the ordination of women at all? How about the ambiguity in the the Anglican church about whether Christ is really present in the Eucharist? How about being the church that began the tidal wave leading to acceptance of abortion, homosexuality, and all sorts of other sexual dysfunctions in our world today, via the ruling that Christians could contracept at the Lambuth Conference back in the 20’s?

My point is, what’s so special about the consecration of women as bishops? Seems to me that the Anglican church has been destroying unity with the RCC for the last 100 years at least…why would the consecration of women be the point of no return? Any ideas?