text: John Hobson, I think the relationship between the churches is more nuanced. While Leo XIII is still in place, as it were, Cardinal Kasper (at the 2008 Lambeth Conference, online) best articulated where the CC is in relation to the Anglican Church, noting that Rome has taken a more Orthodox position regarding Anglican orders, suggesting that the validity of orders does not depend simply on the fulfillment of certain technical conditions regarding correct matter, form and intention, but depends more on the broader, more substantive issues (i.e., woman's ordination, understanding of certain  teachings, etc.). To just focus on Leo's XIII's pronouncement (merely technical issues) isolates the problem of valid orders.