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Priest /Holy Father /Apostolic Let.
Ad tuendam fidem
28/05/1998
By means of this Apostolic Letter promulgated "Motu Proprio", certain norms are inserted into the Code of Canon Law and the Code of Canon Law for the Oriental Churches.
Priest /Holy Father /Apostolic Let.
Ordinatio sacerdotalis
22/05/1994
Ordination to Priesthood, through which the Office entrusted by Christ to the Apostles to teach to, sanctify and rule on the faithful is transmitted, since the beginning has always been exclusively reserved to men in the Catholic Church.
Therefore, as His Holiness said, to eliminate any possible doubt concerning a very important issue which is relevant to the divine constitution of the Church, by virtue of my ministry to strengthen my brothers (see Lk 22:32), I declare that the Church has no faculty whatsoever to confer priestly ordination to women. This sentence is to be held as definitive by all the faithful of the Church.
Priest /Holy Father /Apostolic Let.
Tribus circiter
05/04/1906
Encyclical ON THE MARIAVITES OR MYSTIC PRIESTS OF POLAND - To pass judgment upon or to rebuke the acts of Bishops does not at all belong to private individuals--that comes within the province only of those higher than they in authority and especially of the Sovereign Pontiff.