text: I am sorry, but that is not going to happen.  The Pope's authority is circumscribed by Scripture and Tradition.  And, in this case, both sources of Divine Revelation - Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition - have settled this question in the negative.  The ordination of a woman as a priest, leaving aside the fact that it would be both illicit and invalid, would create a division in the Church unseen since the Reformation.  It would rend the Body of Christ asunder, and if for no other reason (though there are ample other reasons), no Pope would countenance such a sacrilege.