Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women, as expressed in the current canon law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is that: \"Only a baptized man (in Latin, vir) validly receives sacred ordination.\" The Church teaches that this requirement is a matter of divine law, and thus doctrinal regarding priesthood. The question of whether only males can receive ordination to the diaconate has not been definitively ruled out by a document of the Magisterium (the Pope, the Curia, and the Bishops), although there is a fundamental unity between deacon, priest, and bishop in the single sacrament of Holy Orders, which is currently interpreted as meaning that women cannot validly be ordained as deacons. Pope Francis speaking of priestly ordination of women has more recently stated that \"with regards to the ordination of women, the church has spoken and says no...That door is closed.\""@en }
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- Catholic_Church_doctrine_on_the_ordination_of_women abstract "The Catholic Church doctrine on the ordination of women, as expressed in the current canon law and the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is that: \"Only a baptized man (in Latin, vir) validly receives sacred ordination.\" The Church teaches that this requirement is a matter of divine law, and thus doctrinal regarding priesthood. The question of whether only males can receive ordination to the diaconate has not been definitively ruled out by a document of the Magisterium (the Pope, the Curia, and the Bishops), although there is a fundamental unity between deacon, priest, and bishop in the single sacrament of Holy Orders, which is currently interpreted as meaning that women cannot validly be ordained as deacons. Pope Francis speaking of priestly ordination of women has more recently stated that \"with regards to the ordination of women, the church has spoken and says no...That door is closed.\"".