Agreeing to Disagree
Currently, a Catholic Mexican Bishop is in trouble for having "presided at Mass in the basilica" with a Canadian Anglican minister (https://thecatholicherald.com). This action "is a clear violation of Catholic teaching" as it pertains to Catholics participating in "intercommunion with non-Catholics." It seems "the Church forbids" such an arrangement with those "not in full communion with Rome." So, why should we care?
Well, we don't, for the most part. The Catholic Church with its numerous traditions that it has accumulated over the centuries is so far removed from the Bible that what they do does not, thus far, affect us. The same is true with the Anglican Church. We are considering what an Anglican Bishop (John Shelby Spong) believes, but the reason is that he does not believe the Bible—not because he is Episcopalian (related to the Church of England). His beliefs show us the extremes to which Modernism and Liberalism have gone.
But this story involves a principle that transcends the two groups (Catholic and Anglican). It deals with the issue of fellowship between two parties that are in disagreement. Can we agree to disagree? That would seem to be the message of the communion service between the Catholic and the Anglican. These two religious bodies disagree on a number of spiritual issues. Can they therefore have communion together? Various "Christian" leaders sometimes get together in the Orlando area to pray together. Is that what the Scriptures advocate?
Paul taught that there were ones called brothers who should not be fellowshipped in the Lord's supper or at any other time. "But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person" (1 Cor. 5:11). "Oh," someone responds, "but that didn't mention having a doctrinal difference with someone." Okay, then. How about this? Would Paul invite Hymenaeus and Alexander, whom he had "delivered to Satan," to share in communion with him (1 Tim. 1:20)? Would he have invited Hymenaeus and Philetus, who said the resurrection was already past, to stand with him (2 Tim. 2:16-18)? It is difficult to have fellowship with someone who is overthrowing the faith of some.
Incidentally, the Mexican priest fellowshipped an Anglican woman who had no authority to lead over men (1 Tim. 2:11-14). Oh, yes, she also is sympathetic to LGBTQ+ and refers to herself as "queer," which means that neither one of them believe the moral teaching of the Scriptures (Rom. 1:24-28). Why shouldn't they fellowship each other?