Title: Ordination of women and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia
Headings: Ordination of women and the Catholic Church
Ordination of women and the Catholic Church
Contents
History
Early Church
Church Fathers
Ecumenical councils
Church teaching
Requirements of holy orders
Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood
Ordinatio sacerdotalis
Response of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
Doctrinal Commentary on Ad tuendam fidem
Decree on the Attempted Ordination of Some Catholic Women
Catechism
2008 excommunication order
Pope Francis
Ordination to the diaconate
Ordination and equality
Dissenting views
See also
Notes
References

Content: If after receiving ordination and spending some time in the ministry she despises God's grace and gets married, such a person is to be anathematised along with her spouse. Church teaching
Requirements of holy orders
While the church believes Christians have the right to receive the sacraments, the church does not believe in a right to ordination. The church believes the sacraments work ex opere operato as manifestations of Jesus' actions and words during his life, and that according to dogma Jesus only chose certain men as apostles. The church teaches that a woman's impediment to ordination is diriment, of divine law, public, absolute, and permanent because Jesus instituted ordination by ordaining the twelve apostles, since holy orders is a manifestation of Jesus' calling of the apostles. Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood
In 1976, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued the Declaration on the Question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood which taught that for doctrinal, theological, and historical reasons, the Church "does not consider herself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination". Reasons given were the Church's determination to remain faithful to its constant tradition, its fidelity to Christ's will, and the iconic value of male representation due to the "sacramental nature" of the priesthood. The Church teaching on the restriction of its ordination to men is that masculinity was integral to the personhood of both Jesus and the men he called as apostles. The Church sees maleness and femaleness as two different ways of expressing common humanity ( essence ). Ordinatio sacerdotalis
Main article: Ordinatio sacerdotalis
On May 22, 1994, John Paul II promulgated Ordinatio sacerdotalis, where he states that the Church cannot confer priestly ordination on women: