text: (Continued - and final part!)
  In response to the ordination of women in the Episcopal Church (the second one being in 1974) the CDF declared that women CANNOT be ordained to the priesthood in 1976.  The CDF invoked Vatican II (Lumen gentium 25) regarding the infallible teaching capacity of all bishops when in communion with one another, and that it has always been the ordinary, constant and definitive teaching of all bishops throughout the world.  As a result, JP2's letter on the matter "handed on" this same teaching by his formal declaration, thereby making explicit what is always and everywhere to be held by all as belonging to the deposit of faith. 
  
  So where was Pope Francis to go?  There was nothing else he could do, period.  And there is right now no possible way for a change in that infallible teaching to be made.  However, it should be noted that the CDF's declaration is itself non-infallible!  So the debate continues, as it should.  The theologians have the matter now.