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: 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: 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. Pope John Paul II explains the Catholic understanding that the priesthood is a role specia