text: Validity of what sacraments?  We already know [have historical documents]  that abbesses like St. Brigid of Ireland were ordained.
  She was consecrated as Bishop as well. And it was a VALID consecration.
  But there has been, and still remains, that misogyny [and Nora is correct] that women have been shackled with since Origin, Tertullian, Jerome and Augustine---[followed by Aquinas and others down through the ages]who taught the heresy that women are inferior,that Eve [and all women] seduce men into sin, and that women are not created in the 'image and likeness of Christ."   
  
  
  When it comes to admitting that its edicts were wrong, the official church chokes on saying "We're sorry. We were wrong."  Infallible statements?  That's what got us into the trouble that we have in so many areas of the church.  We can't move on because a misguided pope in one age---made an infallible statement.  And the Church, knowing better in a succeeding age, is strapped with that so-called 'infallibility'.