Invalid ordination and anathema

On the Day of Pentecost, 60 Anglican clergymen were ordained Catholic priests. The Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate announces both to them and to the believers who are joining the Catholic Church with them:

The Holy Orders are invalid. By this so-called conversion they come under the power of an apostatical structure which has betrayed Christ and cast the Holy Spirit out of its heart. On 1 May 2011, beatifying the apostate Pope John Paul II, Benedict XVI placed the spirit of Assisi – the spirit of antichrist – on the altar of the Church. He thus automatically fell under God’s anathema and the Church was left in a sedes vacantis state. The ex-Pope now occupies the office unlawfully. All bishops and priests who are in unity with him are under an anathema too. They make it manifest by mentioning his name in the liturgy. These apostates celebrate the liturgy and administer the sacraments invalidly.

What is the solution for the Anglican clergymen who want to join the true Catholic Church? Those who took Holy Orders must admit that these Holy Orders are invalid. If they wish to be true-Catholic priests, they need to repent. They must dissociate themselves from the spirit of Assisi – the spirit of antichrist – which has penetrated the whole Western Church through the official structure. Thereafter, they can be ordained Holy Orders by true-Catholic bishops.

                                                                                   + Elijah

                                                                                   Patriarch

                                                           + Methodius OSBMr           + Timothy OSBMr

                                               Bishops and Secretaries of the Byzantine Catholic Patriarchate

                                                                                                                                      Lvov (Ukraine), 15 June 2011