Context counts

This part of the article is pretty straight forward.

Female Episcopal bishop could strain Catholic ties

A potentially historic speech about women that received little media fanfare was made two weeks before America's Episcopal Church elected Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori as its leader in June.

The speaker was Cardinal Walter Kasper, the Vatican's top liaison with non-Catholic Christians. He addressed the Church of England's bishops and certain female priests.

Catholic and Anglican officials have spent four decades working toward shared Communion.

Mincing no words, Kasper said that goal of restoring full relations "would realistically no longer exist" if Anglicanism's mother church in England were to consecrate female bishops.

And this must be quoted out of context:

The cardinal said female bishops should be elevated only after "overwhelming consensus" is reached with Catholicism and like-minded Eastern Orthodoxy.

Mainly because it doesn't make sense in the context of the next quote from the Cardinal:

Anglicans cannot assume Catholicism will someday drop objections to female priests and bishops, Kasper said. "The Catholic Church is convinced that she has no right to do so."

...full piece here