| | Everytime I discuss women's ordination, I always ask people in favor of it how they reconcile their thoughts with Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which declared infallibly that women can never be priests. They tell me the document says, "at the present time." I could never find the phrase until today, where it says that "at the present time" some claim this to be a discipline but it is not, and then John Paul the Great defines it infallibly (according to the ordinary Magisterium). Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church's judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force. Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church's divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful.
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