Vatican upholds excommunication for seven women "ordained" priestesses...

"No woman shall stand in the Sacrifice as a priest. How dare you set yourselves for a change created by satan!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1976

According to a January 27, 2003 BBC news report: 

The Vatican has upheld its decision to excommunicate seven women ordained as priests last year by a controversial cleric.
     A decree from the Vatican watchdog - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - said the women's appeal was rejected because of the "gravity of the offences committed".
     It said the decision had the approval of Pope John Paul II himself.

Understanding the Church's teaching

A Newsweek poll (April 1, 2002) found that 64% of Catholics in the United States support the ordination of women, despite a definitive ruling from the Church to the contrary. From this poll it is apparent that Catholics are: (1) abysmally ignorant of their Faith and/or (2) in open rebellion to the Vicar of Church, Pope John Paul II. 

     Concerning a male-only priesthood, the Church declared in 1976 that "the fact of conferring priestly ordination only on men, it is a question of an unbroken tradition throughout the history of the Church, universal in the East and in the West, and alert to repress abuses immediately. This norm, based on Christ's example, has been and is still observed because it is considered to conform to God's plan for his Church" (Declaration on the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood, CDF, October 15, 1976, #4).  The same document goes on to say that "The Catholic Church has never felt that priestly or episcopal ordination can be validly conferred on women. A few heretical sects in the first centuries, especially Gnostic ones, entrusted the exercise of the priestly ministry to women: this innovation was immediately noted and condemned by the Fathers, who considered it as unacceptable in the Church." (#1)

     As noted by Fr. Vincent Miceli, S.J. in his book, Women Priests and Other Fantasies: "The only begotten Son of the Father took on a physical particular human nature from Mary. That nature is male. He chose, ordained and sent out as his successors in the priesthood Apostles, all men. The Catholic Church, following the will and example of her Divine Founder, in a constant, clear, irreversible tradition, has chosen only men successors to these Apostles; every priest and bishop chosen by her for 2,000 years has been a man, representing and serving mankind before God." (Miceli, p. 9)

Ordination is not a right

Those clamoring for women’s ordination not only err regarding Church doctrine, they also fail to understand that ordination is a gift, not a right. The 1976 Vatican document is clear: "The priesthood is not conferred for the honor or advantage of the recipient, but for the service of God and the Church; it is the object of a specific and totally gratuitous vocation: "You did not choose me, no, I chose you, and I commissioned you. . . " (Jn 15:16; cf. Heb 5:4)." (Declaration, #6)

     Fr. Miceli likewise refutes the error of considering ordination as a “right”: "Changing God's plan to call woman priest and bishop can never be a matter of personal rights, human justice and equality. No one has any rights before God. And no one has a right to be a priest. The priesthood is not a profession left to one's option; it is a vocation freely bestowed by God and ratified by His Church." (Miceli, p. 10)

Liberation?

A common element can be seen in many of those agitating for women’s ordination. There are those in the Church striving for change and revolution because they themselves are troubled people. Within themselves, there is a revolution going on: an interior revolution of rage, power-seeking, a rejection of the cross of Christ, a contempt for God-given authority.

    The lie put forward is that denying women ordination is based on discrimination, not doctrine.  As Fr. Miceli points out, "... the non-ordination of women to the priesthood has nothing, absolutely nothing to do with an 'inferiority' man or women can imagine or concoct, no matter how plausible or pleasing the face of this falsehood may appear." (Miceli, p. 3)

     More can be understood of the women’s ordination debate from the words of Robert Bork, "The radical feminist branch of modern liberalism ... sees all male-female interactions, including marriage, as power relationships--a view that does not do a lot of good for marriages and families." (Robert H. Bork, Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline, p. 29)

     The radical feminists grasping for power in the Church also has an explanation. Stanley Rothman (professor of government at Smith College) and his colleagues, “in a series of studies of student and adult radicals, found that 'rather than exhibiting the liberating themes, both radical adults and students exhibit marked narcissism and enhanced needs for power.' (American Elites, chapter 8). They also showed a higher fear of power than traditionals or nonradicals." (Bork, p. 25)

     One theologian who has received an excommunication for holding to the error of women’s ordination (among other heretical beliefs), Father Tissa Balasuriya of Sri Lanka, who wrote a book in 1990 titled, "Mary and Human Liberation," in which he called for the ordination of women.  The Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) investigated his writings and found them heretical. They forwarded to him a profession of faith in November 1995, in which he was asked to confirm his beliefs in: the necessity of baptism for salvation, the Immaculate Conception of Mary, the bodily Assumption of Mary to heaven, original sin, etc. The media reported that the statement included a sentence stating that: "The Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women." He declined to sign the declaration, and instead signed a different text. The CDF asked again in June 1996 that he sign the original statement; he refused. The Congregation decided to excommunicate him, but did not act on that ruling because Father Balasuriya had appealed his case to Pope John Paul II. On January 2, 1997, Pope John Paul II upheld the excommunication.

Not even Our Lady was chosen

The fact that no women have been ordained for 2,000 years in the Catholic Church, as well as the fact that none of the Apostles chosen by Christ were women, should make anyone think. The 1976 Vatican declaration states, "Jesus Christ did not call any woman to become part of the Twelve. If he acted in this way, it was not in order to conform to the customs of his time, for his attitude towards women was quite different from that of his milieu, and he deliberately and courageously broke with it." (Declaration, #3) Pope Innocent III wrote at the beginning of the thirteenth century, "Although the Blessed Virgin Mary surpassed in dignity and in excellence all the Apostles, nevertheless it was not to her but to them that the Lord entrusted the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven". [Pope Innocent III, "Epist.," December 11, 1210 to the Bishops of Valencia and Burgos] (Declaration, #2)  

     Tragically, those clamoring for women’s ordination lack any understanding of the complementary roles played by both men and women in the Mystical Body the Christ, the Church: "... the difference of the sexes assigns men and women their places, their graces, their vocations within the Mystical Body. And these are not interchangeable but complementary in the fulfillment of God's plan for the salvation of the human family." (Miceli, p. 16)

     Some agitators even go so far as to claim that Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, was somehow compelled by the culture of the day to exclude women from His band of Apostles. Jean Galot dispels this error: "It seems that this way of reasoning is not in conformity with the mentality of Jesus. He made no concessions to the prejudices of His contemporaries about the inferiority of women, and He openly and clearly fought against these prejudices, recognizing woman's equality with man on many occasions. Thus He overcame all the conditionings of the environment in which He lived. If Christ reserved the priestly ministry to men, it cannot, therefore, be as a result of these prejudices, but by virtue of a divine plan which desired for the Church the cooperation of men and women in different functions." (L'Osservatore Romano, December 8, 1973)

     The Church preaches the Gospel in season and out of season; the Church will triumph over all obstacles, maintaining fidelity to its divine Founder. As Fr. Miceli writes, "... it should be remembered that the Church is not called upon to comply with any age in its fashionable prejudices; she is called upon to be faithful to the deposit of the truth possessed by her in her teachings and living traditions. It is not a question of progressive adaptation or reactionary obstinacy to ordain or refuse to ordain women. It is simply a question of obedience or disobedience to God's ordinances revealed in Scripture and the living traditions." (Miceli, p. 18)

Pagan influences 

     The 1976 Vatican declaration states that "In the Hellenistic world, the cult of a number of pagan divinities was entrusted to priestesses." (Declaration, #3)  Calls for women’s ordination indicate that many have conformed themselves to pagan ways of thinking. Fr. Miceli observes that once the sense of the sacred begins to disappear, it is a sure sign of the faithful becoming paganized: "The moment the sense of the sacred diminishes in a people, it is a sure sign that the faithful are becoming secularized, materialized, paganized. For then they have lost an awareness of the presence of God and of His kingdom that descends from above." (Miceli, p. 23)

     The godless one-world forces are now setting their sights against the Church’s doctrinal position regarding the all-male priesthood. As reported by Zenit.org on March 12, 2002, "The European Parliament on Tuesday is poised to debate a report that condemns the Catholic Church for its moral principles and its position on women priests. The document, written by Spanish Socialist María Izquierdo Rojo, was approved last October by the Women´s Rights Commission and analyzed subsequently by the Citizens´ Liberties and Rights Commission", which are both organs of the European Parliament.

"Already We hear you clamor for the ordination of woman. No woman shall stand in My House to represent Me!  How dare you bring in this heresy to My House!  I shall go among you and I shall sling you out from My temples!"  - Jesus, December 27, 1975

The amazing Bayside Prophecies...
These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

DISOBEDIENCE

"No woman shall be on the altars of God!  Disobedience, lack of respect for the Holy Father--what will this bring you to but your own destruction!" - St. Paul, March 24, 1974 

ONLY  MEN
"In the Holy Sacrifice that I left with you, I did not ask for women to be upon the altar, nor try to be a high priestess. They carry this on in the churches of satan; therefore, it shall not be carried on in My Church.
    "When I had the Last Supper with the Apostles, My Mother was not present. If I had it in My power from the Eternal Father to make a priestess, I would surely have chosen My Mother; but, no, there were no women present at the first Dedication."  - Jesus, October 2, 1987

HERESY
"Already We hear you clamor for the ordination of woman. No woman shall stand in My House to represent Me! How dare you bring in this heresy to My House! I shall go among you and I shall sling you out from My temples!"  - Jesus, December 27, 1975

TRADITION  A  SAFEGUARD
"My child and My children, I need not repeat to you the necessity to retain tradition. It was like a valve, a safeguard from the eruption of My Son's Church, a schism, a division within My Son's House upon earth. I cry unto you, your Mother, as I hasten back and forth bringing you the Message, the counsel from Heaven. You must recognize--bishops, cardinals and pastors--you must recognize what is happening now in My Son's House. There is being rebuilt before your very eyes another religion, another church of man. No angels are helping in this building." - Our Lady, September 7, 1978  

GOD-GIVEN  LAWS
"In matters of faith and morals, man must not change the God-given laws, coming from the Seat of Peter, and established through tradition upon earth through My Son's Church."  - Our Lady, October 6, 1979

HOW  DARE  YOU
"No woman shall stand in the Sacrifice as a priest. How dare you set yourselves for a change created by satan!"  - Our Lady, March 18, 1976

NOT  TO  BE  PRIESTS
"The Eternal Father set up women not to be priests and not to be murderers, but to be with the head of the household a guiding light for their children."  - Jesus, October 1, 1988

EVEN OUR LADY WAS NOT CHOSEN

"When I had the Last Supper with the Apostles, My Mother was not present. If I had it in My power from the Eternal Father to make a priestess, I would surely have chosen My Mother; but, no, there were no women present at the first Dedication." - Jesus, October 2, 1987

"In the Holy Sacrifice that I left with you, I did not ask for women to be upon the altar, nor try to be a high priestess. They carry this on in the churches of satan; therefore, it shall not be carried on in My Church." - Jesus, October 2, 1987

 Directives from Heaven...

D173 - Women Priests 
D179 – Women's Liberation
D186 – Excommunication

Links…

Vatican stands firm on women priests, BBC news, January 27, 2003
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2699101.stm

No Women's ordination: it's infallible  http://www.cin.org/users/james/files/w-ordination.htm

1976, October 15: Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith - Declaration on the Admission of Women to the Ministerial Priesthood  http://www.ewtn.com/library/CURIA/CDFINSIG.HTM

Definition of Heresy  http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/defnhrsy.htm 

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