text: Raven, I am impressed that you have all the right terminology, if we can just get them sorted correctly, maybe update them from the 1890s to the 1990s, we might be getting somewhere.
  In the 1890s, pope Leo XIII ruled that Anglican Orders are “absolutely null and void.” The rationale was historical, that the ordination rite had been rendered deficient by eliminating some themes. The changes were made because Anglicans did not want to ordain priests as the Church intends to ordain. It was like a deficient intention, but displaced to the rite itself.
  That ruling remains in place, which is why a Roman Catholic ordination is usually required when an Anglican priest becomes Roman Catholic.
  Meanwhile, the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission, the official joint theological dialogue, reached an agreement on the Eucharist that was solemnly affirmed by JP2 and the Abp of Canterbury in 1996. Conflicts with Leo XIII are unresolved.