Over 80% of German Bishops Present Approve Synodal Way Text Calling for Women’s Ordination

LifeSite News ^ | 9/12/22 | Andreas Wailzer

[marshmallow]

The heterodox text calls for a reassessment of St. John Paul II’s magisterial document 'Ordinatio sacerdotalis.'

FRANKFURT AM MAIN (LifeSiteNews) – The members of the Synodal Way Assembly approved a document calling on Pope Francis to allow women’s ordination. Nearly 82% of the bishops present voted in favor of the document.

The heterodox text calls for a reassessment of Pope St. John Paul II’s magisterial document “Ordinatio sacerdotalis” (1994) in which the Pope confirmed the Church’s constant bi-millennial teaching of an exclusively male priesthood. In his apostolic letter, John Paul II quoted Pope Paul VI in his affirmation of the Church’s teaching on the matter:

She [the Catholic Church] holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: 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. (Ordinatio sacerdotalis 1)

John Paul II added this emphatic declaration regarding the question of priestly ordination for women:

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. (Ordinatio Sacerdotalis 4)

[rhinohunter]

Hmmm...Did they also vote to strip Pope St. John Paul II of his Sainthood?

[rwilson99]

More division caused by those Trads and their Latin mass I see.

[Bigg Red]

Where are the lightning bolts?

Prayers up for Holy Mother Church.

[Ken Regis]

Yeah!

Soon they won’t know who they’re referring to when they call on “mother“

Mary, the “priest”?

The whole scam could fall apart.

[MDLION]

If they’re denying a magisterial teaching of the Church, they’re heretics. St. Boniface, pray for them.

[married21]

I think the fact that they are state-sanctioned and their salary comes from the government removes all credibility from the German clergy. They don’t actually need a congregation of people with real lives and concerns. In fact, people like that just get in the way of their plans to remodel Christianity into Post-Christianity.