text: "...co-religionists do not recognize the female leading...."
  
  You are quite right, Tridentinus. But many (not all, of course) are quite congenial to the contradictions, the messiness of it all. Like the Mormons, they contrive, forge and invent retroactively in pursuit of God, tradition, and holiness. I enjoy them when in UK, but thanks God I am a Catholic.