:
>
> Several people in the Vatican (for example Cardinal Ratzinger) do
> think that
> the pope did speak "ex cathedra" when he published Humanae Vitae. The
> same
> thing for the recent statement about non-access for women to the
> ordination.
> I don't know the references anymore, but an article written by the
> Cardinal
> himself was published in the Osservatore Romano...
> Stefaan.
Actually the document "Ordinatio Sacerdotalis" is written in far more
definite terms than is "Humanae Vitae" and Cardinal Ratzinger was
indeed asked if it was to be regarded as infallible. He replied in the
affirmative; not, though (he added) simply because the Pope had said
it, but because it had been the consistent teaching of the Church from
the earliest times.
Oriens.
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