Hollerich Contradicts Ratzinger: Women Priest Can Come “With Time”

Luxembourg Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich believes that Francis will not introduce [invalidly] ordained priestesses.

Simultaneously, he referred to one of the Dubia of five cardinals which asked about John Paul II’s teaching in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that women cannot be priests. According to Jean-Claude Hollerich, “Francis responded very wisely: It is binding, but not forever” (Kath.ch, 17 May).

In other words: Ordinatio Sacerdotalis means nothing and can be changed at any time. Hollerich confirms this interpretation: “It is not an infallible doctrinal decision. It can be changed. It needs arguments and time.”

John Paul II defines in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis that “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women.” What was true then, must also be true now. In October 1995, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger confirmed that Ordinatio Sacerdotalis is “infallible” and “is to be held always, everywhere, and by all, as belonging to the deposit of the faith”.

Since both positions, Ratzinger's and Hollerich's, cannot be reconciled, there is an open contradiction in doctrine.

Hollerich wishes that women “feel (!) fully equal” – “whether this happens through the priesthood or not is something that time will tell.” He knows women “who say that they feel called” to the priesthood, and he believes them. In the Catholic Church, a "call to the priesthood" is not something subjective but a call from the Church.

Showing that for him the Catholic Faith and Tradition is irrelevant, Hollerich fears only that “a storm” would break out on other continents if the Vatican “tomorrow” introduced an invalid ordination for women: “The Vatican would have to back down. There has already been a huge storm of indignation over ‘Fiducia supplicans’. And that's a small thing. It's not even about recognising homosexuality. It's just about allowing irregular couples [= unrepentant mortal sinners] to be blessed.”

Certainly, there will be no "storm" in Luxembourg since the Church is dead in this country and the few faithful in the empty churches are over 70 and 80.

Asked about a decentralization, Hollerich says that it will be difficult regarding the priesthood, “When it comes to the liturgy, I can well imagine it, especially since there are cultural versions.”

Picture: Jean-Claude Hollerich © Mazur, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsKkgkcqmkhf

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323May 20

Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich of Luxembourg has counseled proponents of women’s ordination of “be cautious, take one step at a time, and then you might be able to go far.” “It can be changed,” he said of the Church’s teaching on women’s ordination. “It needs arguments and time.”

Alejandrina Reyes

May 19

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mccallansteve

May 18

Liar! You place yourself above Christ and will pay the price.

Tomito Barnin Railin

May 18

The reality is that Hollerich's atrocities scandalize us and rightly so. But it happens that we are in a minority in a Church and a society that is increasingly disoriented and without Faith. And it turns out that this man is a cardinal elector, and will continue to be so for many years, so he can choose and, most seriously, be elected pope, because the good cardinals are also in the minority, and as long as Francis remains pope this will only get worse. Therefore, and although we currently refuse to believe it, what prevents that in a few decades, or a century at most, and with another pope and another context, there will no longer be a "storm" and the Church, in the hands of these guys, start "ordaining" women priests? Let's face it, the majority of people, inside and outside the Church, in many countries if it were done today would not only not oppose it but would applaud it.

I'm sorry but I'm not optimistic.

Patricia McKeever

May 18

@Tomito Barnin Railin
Don't be "optimistic" - optimism is often, if not always, baseless. What we must exercise is our Faith and Hope - remember "man proposes but God disposes". All the speculating about the future, conclaves and conmen alike, is pointless because we have Christ's guarantee to be with His Church until the end of time.

Louis IX

3May 18

St. Peter could come down from Heaven and place his hands upon a woman in an act of ordination and absolutely nothing would happen. She would never be a priest and no pope can change that.

Father Karl A Claver

6May 18

It will NEVER change. When apples grow on lilac bushes and when donkeys fly means NEVER, you silly stupid wolf in sheep's clothing.

Patricia McKeever

5May 18

Well, for goodness sake! I "feel" called to be Queen of Scotland, but too bad, not going to happen. What a ridiculous man to speak such baloney. Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger were spot on - male-only ordination IS an infallible teaching and those who don't like it, can find a pseudo-church (no shortage) where they have women "priests".