Essen Bishop Franz-Josef Overbeck, Germany, “can imagine that women would become priestesses.”
He told the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (November 30) that abolishing celibacy would be a first step to a female priesthood.
Overbeck's idea is absurd because women cannot validly receive the sacrament of Orders, just as cider cannot be consecrated at Mass.
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