Title: Criticism of the Catholic Church - Wikipedia
Headings: Criticism of the Catholic Church
Criticism of the Catholic Church
Contents
Internal
Use of Latin
Traditionalist Catholics
Clerical celibacy
Ordination of women
Interfaith
Judaism
Russian Orthodoxy
Protestantism
Islam
Buddhism
Historical
Simony
Response to heresy
Crusades
Magdalene laundries
Nationalist critique
Finances
Sexual abuse scandals
See also
References
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Content: In his Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis (1994), Pope John Paul II said the "Priestly ordination, … has in the Catholic Church from the beginning always been reserved to men alone." He cited the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (under Pope Paul VI) Declaration Inter Insigniores on the question of the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, and declared 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." The reasons given included: " the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God's plan for his Church." Some groups, nonetheless, say the matter should still be open for discussion. Dissenters do not regard Ordinatio sacerdotalis as definitive Church teaching. But in June 2018 Pope Francis said, "We cannot do this with Holy Orders (women priests) because dogmatically we cannot. Pope John Paul II was clear and closed the door and I'm not going to go back on that.