Posted on 03/31/2023 6:47:08 PM PDT by marshmallow
Rome Newsroom, Mar 28, 2023 / 13:00 pm Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, SJ, the archbishop of Luxembourg and a key leader of the Synod on Synodality, said the Catholic Church’s teaching on a male-only priesthood is not infallible and a future pope could allow women priests.
The cardinal, 64, addressed the topic of the ordination of women, homosexuality, women in the Church, obedience to the pope, and the German “Synodal Way” in an interview with Glas Koncila, a Croatian Catholic weekly, published March 27.
“Pope Francis does not want the ordination of women, and I am completely obedient to that. But people continue to discuss it,” Hollerich said.
The cardinal questioned the infallibility of papal documents such as St. John Paul II’s Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, which affirmed the Church’s perennial teaching that only men may be ordained to Holy Orders.
“It is the Holy Father who has to decide” whether women can be priests, Hollerich said.
The cardinal added that “with time” a pope could go against what John Paul II wrote in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, saying he is “not sure you could call it” infallible.
“It surely is a true teaching for its time, and we cannot just push it aside. But I think that there might be some space to expand the teaching — to see which of the arguments of Pope John Paull II could be developed,” he said.
“But for the moment, if Pope Francis tells me it is not an option, it is not an option.”
John Paul II stated in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis: “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 ... in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which.........
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No, that was decided by Jesus Christ.
I am waiting for someone to explain to me how Catholic church is still Christ’s Church.
Because the entirety of it is a rotten shell of what Christ intended
I women are to be allowed to be priests, will that include “trans women”?
How about letting married men be priests first?
Hollerich was elevated to the college of cardinals by Bergoglio in 2019 and appointed to Bergoglio's "Council of Cardinals" in March 2023.
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