"Um Papa 'progressista' pode permitir a ordenação de mulheres" (uma investigação internética)

Durante o período de Sede Vacante, alguns comentadores manifestaram a esperança de que a Igreja se 'modernizasse'.

Um dos aspectos desta 'modernização'consistiria na ordenação de mulheres.

Eu tenho um grande respeito pelas opiniões e informações que os media transmitem sobre a Igreja e, por isso, foi com alguma surpresa que eu encontrei este documento que transcrevo na íntegra:

"Responsum ad Dubium Concerning the Teaching Contained in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis

Dubium: Whether the teaching that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women, which is presented in the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis to be held definitively, is to be understood as belonging to the deposit of faith.

Responsum: In the affirmative.

This teaching requires definitive assent, since, founded on the written Word of God, and from the beginning constantly preserved and applied in the Tradition of the Church, it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium (cf. Second Vatican Council, Dogmatic Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium 25, 2). Thus, in the present circumstances, the Roman Pontiff, exercising his proper office of confirming the brethren (cf. Lk 22:32), has handed on this same teaching by a formal declaration, explicitly stating what is to be held always, everywhere, and by all, as belonging to the deposit of the faith.

The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, at the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, approved this Reply, adopted in the ordinary session of this Congregation, and ordered it to be published.

Rome, from the offices of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, on the Feast of the Apostles SS. Simon and Jude, October 28, 1995.

Joseph Card. Ratzinger
Prefect

Tarcisio Bertone
Archbishop Emeritus of Vercelli
Secretary

O então Cardeal Ratzinger escreveu mesmo um texto explicativo sobre esta questão.

A Igreja não tem autoridade para permitir a ordenação de mulheres. Por isso, independentemente de quem use as sandálias do pescador, nunca teremos sacerdotes do sexo feminino.