[NYer]

In May 1994, Pope John Paul II issued an Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis on Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone.1 In this document, the Successor of Peter and the Vicar of Christ on earth reiterated in a particularly solemn manner a Church teaching to the effect that "the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women."

The Holy Father declared that this judgment was "to be definitively held by all the Church's faithful." He said that he was issuing this judgment "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." He said that he was speaking in virtue of his "ministry of confirming the brethren (Luke 22:32)."

"Rome has spoken," but the "cause" goes on and on anyway. The pope declared infallibly that there is to be no female ordinations.

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[Knitting A Conundrum]

Again, a case that if people do not like the Catholic Church and its' regulations they are free to join other groups or form their own group that meets their needs. Women's ordination is not in the package...