Any chance of real reconciliation with Anglicans is highly unlikely because of the difference over women priests.
It risks irrelevance in the developed world with its opposition to women priests, birth control, and other positions.
Mr Newlands said the last two bishops of Blackburn had been opposed to the ordination of women priests.
Another guest was Reverend Helen Hornby, the Blackburn Diocese representative for Watch who promote the interests of women priests.
Bishop Reade ordained male and female deacons and made provision for the Bishop of Lancaster to ordain women priests.
He has defended the church's insistence on a celibate priesthood and its opposition to artificial contraception, abortion and women priests.
As well as the issue of women priests, the LCWR's positions on homosexuality and birth control have led to Vatican criticism.
On most of the sensitive areas of Church teaching - women priests, contraception and homosexuality, for example - he was uncompromising.
It has been one of the most divisive issues in the Church since it voted to ordain women priests 20 years ago.
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Despite this, though, he has refused to countenance women priests, delivering a fierce rebuke last year to Catholics who challenged the Church's teaching.
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But progressive types believe that there are two simpler ways out of the mess: to allow priests to marry and to allow women priests.
In January, 50 priests wrote in a letter to the Archbishop of York to say the next Bishop must be prepared to ordain women priests.
The fact that the church can accept married priests just because they are upset at the notion of women priests indicates something of the church's priorities.
But New York's Catholics, while admiring the pope and O'Connor, mostly ignore their teaching on contraception, and many would like a softer attitude to gays and women priests.
Twenty years after the introduction of women priests, the issue has continued to divide traditionalists - among those on the Church's evangelical and Anglo-Catholic wings - from reformers.
And you mentioned women priests, what do you say to those still reluctant church-goers who say they won't attend a particular church if there's a woman priest preaching?
In those ten years the Church of England has gone through some remarkable changes including the ordination of women priests and a new tolerance of priests with a homosexual orientation.
The conference has also heard how the ordination of women priests as bishops is back on the church's agenda, five years after a move to introduce it was lost by just three votes.
It stars a Latin American pope who understands real life and is liberal on issues like clerical celibacy, women priests and the pursuit of social justice, but who wants to keep his church intact.
Superficially, Dr Williams seems to be keeping the door open to reversing the historic decision to make women priests, and doing so just as the Church is poised to allow them to become bishops too.
One thing is certain: Those looking for changes when it comes to the Church's teaching on sexual ethics - on abortion, for example, or homosexuality, or condoms, or women priests - are likely to be disappointed.
Prior to being elevated to a cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 21 October 2003, when he became only the third Scot to reach the rank since the Reformation, he had expressed his openness to a debate on issues like priestly celibacy, women priests and contraception within the church.
He said he planned on ordaining women as priests within the diocese and was in favour of women serving as Bishops.
The Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is accused by the Vatican of "radical feminism" and of failing to obey church teaching on such matters as the possible ordination of women as priests.
Fifty-five percent said the next pope should allow women to become priests, while 44 percent said he should not.
It advocates equal rights for men and women and married priests and asks for a new approach on contraception and homosexuality.
More harshly than Ms Zinovieff, he portrays corrupt doctors, primitive male attitudes to women, and priests who rattle through their prayers.
"Women are good priests and there are many of them who would by now in the normal course of things be in episcopal roles or being considered for them, " Mr Clark insists.
From an Anglo-Catholic point of view, he believes, "it's absolutely essential that women should be admitted to the episcopate" and illogical to have female priests without women bishops.
Most were the old, the sick or pregnant women, or Hindu priests and stray easterners like Kanchana.
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