Recent document on church makes falsehoods

If it isn't Roman Catholic then it's not a proper Church, Pope tells Christians

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2056515.ece

 

The actual document is called

RESPONSES TO SOME QUESTIONS REGARDING CERTAIN ASPECTS
OF THE DOCTRINE ON THE CHURCH

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20070629_responsa-quaestiones_en.html

 

It says that the Eastern Churches are "deficient", mainly because they are not Catholic, and with Protestant churches is much worse:

 

"Why do the texts of the Council and those of the Magisterium since the Council not use the title of "Church" with regard to those Christian Communities born out of the Reformation of the sixteenth century?"

"According to Catholic doctrine, these Communities do not enjoy apostolic succession in the sacrament of Orders, and are, therefore, deprived of a constitutive element of the Church. These ecclesial Communities which, specifically because of the absence of the sacramental priesthood, have not preserved the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic Mystery cannot, according to Catholic doctrine, be called "Churches" in the proper sense"

This document comes with approval from the Pope:

"The Supreme Pontiff Benedict XVI, at the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, ratified and confirmed these Responses, adopted in the Plenary Session of the Congregation, and ordered their publication."

This is despite all the talk of "claification" (a weasel word if ever there was one), a contradition with Vatican II, which clearly speaks of:

"Separated Churches and Ecclesial Communities in the West "

which are described as follows:

"In the great upheaval which began in the West toward the end of the Middle Ages, and in later times too, Churches and ecclesial Communities came to be separated from the Apostolic See of Rome."

"It must however be admitted that in these Churches and ecclesial Communities there exist important differences from the Catholic Church, not only of an historical, sociological, psychological and cultural character, but especially in the interpretation of revealed truth. "

If that is not a document which uses the word "churches" for Reformation churches, I don't know what is!