text: Pope Francis seems to believe otherwise.  When the media questioned him about whether the decree is binding for all time, he replied to their utter shock and amazement "That is the way I read it.  I don't know how else to take it." 
  
  The Church did not establish the male only presbyterate, God did when he incarnated as a male.    God also confirmed this when he called male apostles.   The Church received this teaching and upheld it by calling only males to the presbyterate in her tradition.  The Church also confirmed this by condemning the practice of female priests in the heretical Christian sects that ordained females.