Title: Why Can't the Church Ordain Women?
Headings: WHY CAN'T THE CHURCH ORDAIN WOMEN?
WHY CAN'T THE CHURCH ORDAIN WOMEN?
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Content: The pope permitted the latter despite the strong protests of many traditionalists. The Church has done much to include women in the liturgy, even at the risk of angering and losing many of her members! Why then does she not also ordain women to the ministerial priesthood? Return To Top
So Why No Women Priests? The simple reason is that she just cannot do it, as her documents clearly state. According to Inter Insignores, the Church "does not consider herself authorized to admit women to priestly ordination" (3). And in his recent letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, Pope John Paul II authoritatively writes: " 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" (4). So it is not that the Church can but will not; rather, she does not because she cannot!