Brethren, it happens every year about this time and I always have something to say about it: The “catholic” organization, “WomenPriests,” held their yearly simulation of the Sacrament of Orders in a Protestant Church in Maryland. (I have no objections that the simulacrum took place in a Protestant Church because that’s where they belong). Observe yourselves:
The folks at GetReligion did a good analysis from the journalistic viewpoint on a post titled What makes someone a ‘Catholic priest’? of an obsequiously shoddy NPR report on the event.
But to me, the bottom line is clear and in black-and-white in the 1983 Code of Canon Law:
Can. 1024 A baptized male alone receives sacred ordination validly.
What this means is: No woman can be ordained validly; no woman can ordain another woman validly for she was not validly ordained in the first place. Not even the Pope can validly ordain a woman.
These WomynPriests events are mere simulations in which nothing is granted and nothing is received. Nothing more, nothing less. They are spectacles in which schism, heresy, and disobedience are disguised under false appeals to prophetic actions and a thirst for media attention, and celebrated.
Yet the media keeps paying a whole lot of attention to nothing. It's the nature of the beast.
Nothing happened there. Nothing that deserved attention or reporting.