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Ordinatio Sacerdotalis

On Reserving Priestly Ordination to Men Alone

Apostolic letter · Pope John Paul II · May 22, 1994

Declares that the Church has no authority to ordain women to the priesthood and that this is to be "definitively held by all the Church's faithful".

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LifeSiteNews quotes Sr Mary Teresa Barron accurately on “a call to priesthood”, but leaves out the restLifeSiteNews says the new adjunct secretary of the Dicastery for Evangelization claimed women can "sense a call to priesthood". She did say that, at the 2024 synod. She also said ordained ministry for women was not on the table, and asked only that the discussion continue.§4Read the analysis