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Могут ли женщины стать католическими священниками?



  • The Catholic Church ordains only men. Canon 1024 says that “a baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly,” and the Catechism says the same (Catechism 1577).
  • В Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (1994) John Paul II wrote that the Church “has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women,” and in 1995 the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith called the teaching infallible.
  • The Church rests the rule on Christ choosing twelve men as apostles, on its own constant practice, and on the priest acting in the person of Christ at Mass.
  • A Vatican commission’s report, published in 2025, ruled out women deacons as a degree of Holy Orders but said that judgment is not yet definitive, as it is for priests.
  • Under a 2007 decree, a woman who attempts ordination and anyone who attempts to ordain her are automatically excommunicated.
  • Many Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist churches ordain women, while the Eastern Orthodox Church does not.

No. The Catholic Church ordains only men as priests, and it believes it has no authority to do otherwise. Canon law says that “a baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly,” and in 1994 Pope John Paul II declared the question settled. Many Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist churches ordain women; the Orthodox churches do not. The Church grounds its answer in a choice it believes Christ made, and it insists the choice measures no one’s worth. Its own example is…

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