Ban on women priests didn't seem settled teaching in 1992

Ban on women priests didn't seem settled teaching in 1992

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by Dennis Coday

Jun 14, 2018

Wrting in L'Osservatore Romano last month, the prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith asserted that the ban on ordaining women to the priesthood is "definitive" teaching affirmed by "the ordinary and universal magisterium." A dip into the NCR archives would suggest the question wasn't all that settled in 1992.