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From INTER INSIGNIORES:
(The hyper-linked comments in italics are by John
Wijngaards)
7. Since that period (the Middle Ages) and up to our own
time, it can be said that the question has not been raised again, for the
practice has enjoyed peaceful and universal acceptance. [Is it not rather the case that women were so massively
suppressed, both in theology and Church law, that contrary opinions were
rendered impossible?]
For the full text, see: INTER INSIGNIORES.
From the
Commentary by the Sacred
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on the Declaration Inter
Insigniores:
37. So it is no surprise that until the modern period the
theologians and canonists who dealt with the question have been almost
unanimous in considering this exclusion as absolute and having a divine origin.
[Does an analysis of their arguments not
reveal an utter lack of comprehending the real issues, and a faulty assessment
of both Scripture and Tradition in the matter?] The theological notes
they apply to the affirmation vary from ‘theologically certain’
(theologice certa) to, at times, ‘proximate to faith’
(fidei proxima) or even ‘doctrine of the faith’ (doctrina
fidei).36 Apparently then, until recent decades no theologian or canonist
considered that it was a matter of a simple law of the Church.
Note 36. Details of these theological notes can be found in
E. Doronzo, Tractatus Dogmaticus de Ordine, t. 3, Milwaukee, Bruce,
1962, pp.395-396; Cf. also F. Haller, De Sacris Electionibus, 1636,
quoted in J. P. Migne, Theologiae Cursus Completus, t. 24, colt 821-854;
many present-day objections are surprisingly anticipated in this work, which
goes so far as to qualify as periculosa in fide the opinion that would
admit women’s ordination in general, and as haeretica that which
would admit them to the priesthood, colt 824; cf. also H. Tournely,
Praelectiones Theologicae de Sacramento Ordinis, Parisiis, 1729, p.185,
notes as an error contra fidem this assertion with regard to episcopate,
priesthood and diaconate. Among canonists: X. Wemz, lus Decret., t. 2,
Romae, 1906, p.124: Iure diving (he quotes several writers); P.
Gasparri, Tractatus Canonicus de Sacra Ord inatione, t. 1, Parisiis,
1893, p.75; Et quidem prohibentur sub poena nullitatis: ita enim traditio et
communis doctorum catholicorum doctrina interpretata est legem Apostoli: ed id
eo Patres inter haereses recensent doctrinam qua sacerdotalis d ignitas et of
ficium mulieribus tribuitur.
For the full text, see: Official Commentary on INTER
INSIGNIORES.
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