text: RuleAndRaven, the core of your citation of Ratzinger, the text providing the REASON why the CDF believes woman may not be ordained is:
  
   "...it has been set forth infallibly by the ordinary and universal Magisterium..."
  
  First, let's be clear what this does not say: It does not say St. JP2's Ordinatio Sacerdotalis is itself an infallible papal statement, for it is not and is not understood to be infallible by any Catholic theologian (that is, those with a doctoral degrees in theology who profess Catholicism). Further, there are no other papal statements rejecting the ordination of women that are considered infallible. Therefore, any suggestion that women may not be ordained is an infallible statement CANNOT IN PRINCIPLE be a based on the infallibility proclaimed by V1.
  
  Secondly, Ratzinger is not saying that his declaration itself is an infallible declaration re female ordination, for he knows (as do we), that the CDF has no such authority to proclaim infallibly. 
  
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