A short note from Dr Peters, agreeing with the views of Fr Weishaupt in the previous post.
From In the Light of the Law
By Edward Peters, JD, JCD, Ref. Sig. Ap.
I have just read Rev. Gero Weishaupt’s essay over at kathnews and a report on that essay at Lifesitenews. I find Weishaupt’s assertions quite soundly argued.
In particular, I agree
with Weishaupt that the exclusion of women from priestly ordination was
declared infallibly by Pope St. John Paul II in Ordinatio sacerdotalis (1994), that such a ruling must be definitively held by all the faithful as a “secondary object of infallibility”
(1983 CIC 750 § 2), and that opposition to this ruling makes one liable
to sanction under Canon 1371 n. 1. A canonical warning to the German
bishops on this point is therefore canonically, and pastorally (bishops
have souls, too), in order.
In my view, the
ordination of women to the diaconate is also excluded by Sacred
Tradition, but I grant that such exclusion was not expressly addressed
in the pivotal passage of Ordinatio. Thus, discussion of female
ordination, as if it were doctrinally feasible, strikes me as at best
theologically temerious, though not canonically criminal, at this point.
Meanwhile any actually attempted ordination of a woman is an excommunicable offense.
More, as circumstances warrant and permit.
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