Leo XIV on Anglican Dialogue: Overcoming Differences, No Matter How Intractable They Seem

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Leo XIV on Anglican Dialogue: Overcoming Differences, No Matter How Intractable They Seem

gloria.tv | April 27, 2026

Meeting for the first time with Anglican Dame Sarah Mullally, who holds the title Archbishop of Canterbury, Leo XIV encourages Catholics and Anglicans to proclaim Christ together.

They prayed together in the Urban VIII Chapel in the Apostolic Palace.

Leo XIV spoke about a fake archbishop who was an Anglican layman, and a pope who was far from saintly.

“When archbishop Michael Ramsey and Saint Pope Paul VI announced the first theological dialogue between Anglicans and Catholics [in 1966], they spoke of seeking the ‘restoration of complete communion in faith and sacramental life’. Certainly this ecumenical journey has been complex. While much progress has been made on some historically divisive issues, new problems have arisen in recent decades, rendering the pathway to full communion more difficult to discern.

I know that the Anglican Communion is also facing many of these same questions at this time.

Nevertheless, we must not allow these continuing challenges to prevent us from using every possible opportunity to proclaim Christ to the world together.

As my beloved predecessor, Pope Francis, said to the Primates of the Anglican Communion in 2024, ‘it would be a scandal if, due to our divisions, we did not fulfil our common vocation to make Christ known.’

For my part, I add that it would also be a scandal if we did not continue to work towards overcoming our differences, no matter how intractable they may appear.”