Women Ordained

We talked about this subject on air for the past few days. I posted this back in August but I'm going to repost it scince it is timley once again:

A a poll in Newsweek in 2002, showed 64% of Catholics in the United States supported the ordination of women, despite a definitive ruling from the Church to the contrary. From this poll it is apparent that 64% of Catholics are either abysmally ignorant of their Faith and/or in open rebellion to the Vicar of Christ's Church. . I wish I could say this has changed in recent years.

The Catholic Church declared in 1976 that "the fact of conferring priestly ordination only on men, it is a question of an unbroken tradition throughout the history of the Church, universal in the East and in the West, and alert to repress abuses immediately. This norm, based on Christ's example, has been and is still observed because it is considered to conform to God's plan for his Church" (Declaration on the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, CDF, October 15, 1976, #4). Those clamoring for women’s ordination not only err regarding Church doctrine, they also fail to understand that ordination is a gift, not a right.

The fact that no women have been ordained for 2,000 years in the Catholic Church, as well as the fact that none of the Apostles chosen by Christ were women, should make anyone think. Pope Innocent III wrote at the beginning of the thirteenth century, "Although the Blessed Virgin Mary surpassed in dignity and in excellence all the Apostles, nevertheless it was not to her but to them that the Lord entrusted the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven".

The forces now setting their sights against the Church’s doctrinal position regarding the all-male priesthood can not win. The Church preaches the Gospel in season and out of season; the Church will triumph over all obstacles, maintaining fidelity to its divine Founder. It is up to the faithful to cling to that despite poll results and wayward Catholics.