Aspiring Woman Priests for Mr. Pfeger et al.

Part of Mr. Pfeger's sermon:


(Auxiliary Bishop Frank Murphy for "woman priesthood" et al.?)


Aspiring Woman Priests for Mr. Pfeger et al.

We all know the Church is outdated
And we the true faithful berated
About some of the rules.
We are no darn fools
We'll just get some "Cath'lics" persuaded.

It's just not the "Cath'lics" we'll get
The Bishops we'll talk to and set
A date for rewarding
Apostates regarding
Some action(s) the world can't beset.


Ordinatio Sacerdotalis
4. Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal Tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the Magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church's judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force.

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.

Invoking an abundance of divine assistance upon you, venerable brothers, and upon all the faithful, I impart my apostolic blessing.

From the Vatican, on May 22, the Solemnity of Pentecost, in the year 1994, the sixteenth of my Pontificate.