Civilia Cattolica, in commenting on the document said: "The only recognised means in Catholic tradition for the transmission of the Apostolic Succession is ordination, as was practised in the bosom of the Church from its very beginnings.
"This ordination must be conferred in the Faith of the Church by its own ministers who confer it as part of their office, which itself derives from an ordination, according to an uninterrupted line of ordination going back to the time of the Apostles."
The review added: "The requirement of ordination, carried out with all its fundamental elements,.constitutes the 'hot point' in discussions about the recognition of ministers of Hon-Catholic communities.