I'd post this to .pagan_snark, but ...

Pope: Other Wiccans not true covens

The other communities "cannot be called 'Wiccan' 'churches' in the proper sense" because they do not have initiatory apostolic succession — the ability to trace their High Priests bishops back to Gerald Gardner Christ's original apostles — and therefore their priestly ordinations are not valid, it said.

It's exactly the same!


I'm in at work early after a late night ... can you tell?