Reiterates that the Church is not competent to ordain women.<\/a> Catholics loyal to the Third Vatican Council in shock<\/a>. The universal description of this in the MSM is that Francis is continuing the \u201cban\u201d on women priests.<\/p>\n To be clear: The Church does not \u201cban\u201d women from being priests any more than it \u201cbans\u201d consecration of water in the Eucharist or \u201cbans\u201d baptism in wine. The Church is not free to do whatever it feels like with the sacraments. It has to stick with the matter that Jesus and the apostles used in the sacraments when they handed them down to us. Jesus did not baptize in wine, consecrate water in the cup, or ordain women. The Church is powerless to tell Jesus he doesn\u2019t know what he\u2019s doing.<\/p>\n In response to this are various questions. For instance, why is it that Gentile males can be ordained when Jesus consecrated only Jewish males? Answer: those ordained Jewish males then consecrated Gentiles males as bishops and priests.<\/p>\n Another objection is Jesus nowhere speaks of ordaining priests in the Bible. So it\u2019s all a manmade tradition and women should be ordained. Prescinding from the fact that \u201cThere is no priesthood and women should belong to it\u201d is an odd argument, this is somewhat akin to saying that Jesus nowhere says \u201cBible\u201d in the Bible either. In fact, of course, the priesthood of Jesus absolutely suffuses the New Testament and Jesus\u2019 mission is incomprehensible without it. The New Testament is all about Jesus, the sacrifice who takes away the sins of the world and such a sacrifice requires a priest. And that priest has indeed establish the Eucharist is the eternal participation in that sacrifice. And the Eucharist therefore requires priests to celebrate it. And that is who he is consecrating \u201cin the truth\u201d in John 17. Bp. Robert Barron puts the boots on the idea that there is no New Testament sacerdotal priesthood:<\/p>\n