Pope Leo XIV is not perfect. He gets plenty of things wrong, but every once in a while he gets something very right. We are happy to point it out when he rejects wokeness in the Catholic Church.
In his latest instance of getting something right, the Pope has made it clear that the church is not going to start ordaining women.
The left is always pushing for what they call ‘progress’ and the fact that women cannot be ordained in the Catholic Church drives them nuts. They know that if they can get this camel nose under the tent, it’s just a matter of time before they can completely change tons of other traditions in the Catholic Church.
The left thinks the Catholic Church is like a college campus and they can just protest their way into getting what they want, but the Pope has pretty much ended this discussion.
Ed Morrissey, who is a Catholic, explains at Hot Air:
Pope Leo XIV Puts End to Female Ordination Debate in Catholic Church
So endeth a debate that has officially percolated for more than a decade, and less formally, much longer. When the Catholic Church reinvigorated the permanent diaconate as an ordained ministry several decades ago, activists began lobbying for the inclusion of women in such orders. Unlike the priesthood, the church had ordained women as deacons in its long-ago past, but essentially allowed the entire ministry to wither, with its only vestige being the transitional diaconate used as the final stage before full ordination for priests.
Morrissey point to this article from the Associated Press:
Vatican commission says ‘No’ to making women deacons
A second Vatican study commission has determined that women should not be ordained as deacons, dealing another setback to Catholic women who hope one day to be able to preside at weddings, baptisms and funerals.
The Vatican on Thursday took the unusual step of publishing a synthesis of the commission’s findings, including the members’ votes on specific theological questions. The report left open the possibility of further study but proposed instead the creation of new lay ministries for women outside the ordained diaconate. …
Pope Francis in 2016 ordered a first study commission on the issue following a request from the umbrella organization of the world’s female religious orders, the International Union of Superiors General. After that commission apparently failed to reach consensus, Francis created a second study commission in 2020, named for its president, president Cardinal Giuseppe Petrocchi, which released its report Thursday.
There are already plenty of left wing priests in the Catholic Church, but the instant that the church begins ordaining women, you would see a mad rush of purple and blue haired women signing up to become priests and drape their churches in rainbow flags and BLM banners. Women like this:
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— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) November 10, 2025
The Unitarian Church already exists. The Catholic Church does not need to change in order to be more progressive.
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