The Long Con on Holy Orders: Leo’s Vatican Says “No For Now” While Prepping Women Deacons

Another “strong but not definitive” non-answer, another round of Catholic media gaslighting the faithful into thinking a ticking time bomb is a dogmatic victory.
Pre-conciliar Catholicism spoke clearly about Holy Orders. There is one sacrament, with three grades: bishop, priest, deacon. The subject of that sacrament is a baptized male. That was embedded in the very understanding of Christ the Bridegroom and His sacramental representation at the altar.
Paul VI’s Inter insigniores simply articulated what everyone already knew: the Church has no authority to invent women’s ordination, because Christ did not give it to her in the first place. John Paul II’s Ordinatio Sacerdotalis nailed that down with respect to the priesthood, and the CDF promptly clarified that his judgment is to be held definitively. Canon 1024 of the 1983 Code is just the legal shorthand: only a baptized male validly receives sacred ordination.
If there is one sacrament of Orders, and its subject is a man, the conclusion …