International Business Times
By emil samaniego | July 30, 2013
Aboard the Papal aircraft, Pope Francis in a press conference said that the Church’s door is closed for a female priest.
This is the first time the Pope publicly talked about the topic.
“We cannot limit the role of women in the Church to altar girls or the president of a charity, there must be more,” the Pope said.
“But with regards to the ordination of women, the Church has spoken and says no. Pope John Paul said so with a formula that was definitive. That door is closed,” he said referring to a dictum of late Blessed John Paul II saying the ban was an infallible teaching of the Church.
With a wave of feminism creeping in the Catholic Church, many argued that it is time that the Church gives women a higher leadership position. However, the Church stands on its belief that Jesus only willingly chose males as his apostles. Proponents of female priests argued that Jesus only acted in accordance to the context of his time.
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