text: Not at all, Apostolicae Curae was a response to the Oxford Movement's accusation that the Catholic Church had always insisted on the unconditional ordination of convert Anglican clergy without there ever having been any inquiry as to why.
  Pope Leo XIII granted this inquiry and the Bull was the result.
  Without the pressure from Anglicans and those few Catholics who supported them there would have been no papal pronouncement.
  There is really no way around Apostolicae Curae, it is absolutely watertight. The form of the Sacrament was deliberately altered by Cranmer to exclude ordination to the 'sacrificing priesthood', therefore it was defective in the Catholic sense. Any bishop using it in preference to the Catholic Rite would have had the specific intention of NOT ordaining a Catholic priest (sacerdos), and even if he had, the deliberately defective form nullified it.
  Anglicans pressed for an inquiry into this question and were given a disappointing but honest answer.