Pope Francis reaffirms priesthood is ‘reserved for men,’ cannot be changed to include women

Pope Francis once again squashes activists' hopes for female ordination to the priesthood in a Spanish-language book released in Italian this week.

Pope Francis reaffirmed the Catholic Church's doctrine that women are not able to receive holy orders.

The pope emphasized the church's inability to change doctrine on the subject, but also questioned whether opening the priesthood to women would benefit the clergy. 'Lutherans ordain women, but still few people go to church. Their priests can marry, but despite that they can’t grow the number of ministers. The problem is cultural. We should not be naive and think that programmatic changes will bring us the solution,' Pope Francis said.

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