Media fantasy of the week (again!): The "ordination" of female "priests" in the "Catholic" Church

The Roman Catholic Church does not ordain women to the priesthood. Never has, never will. Anyone who thinks otherwise is living in the same fantasy world as Dawn Reiss, the author of this pathetic piece from TIME/CNN. To point out the theological, ecclesiastical, and factual errors in her story would require a library larger than that of ancient Alexandria. It should be obvious to anyone with the most rudimentary knowledge of church doctrine, polity, and practice that Reiss's purpose is not to report news but to advocate an agenda or, more accurately, indulge in a fantasy while thinking she is advocating an agenda.

Alta Jacko is the mother of eight children. She is also an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church. Jacko, 81, who earned her master's degree in pastoral studies from Loyola University, a Jesuit Catholic school, says being a priest is what she was called to do.
Officially, of course, the Catholic Church's Canon Law 1024 says that only baptized men can receive holy orders. But there is a movement against the no-women rule; it began eight years ago when a cluster of renegade male clerics (including a European bishop whose identity the female priests won't reveal in order not to risk his excommunication) ordained the first women. Now, in Jacko's hometown of Chicago, three women have entered the priesthood.

It should go without saying that Alta Jacko is not now, never has been, and never will be "an ordained priest in the Roman Catholic Church." The "movement against the no-women rule" is about as significant as Harold Stassen's presidential ambitions. Suffice it to say that a "bishop," European or otherwise, whose name cannot be revealed for fear of excommunication would barely have the authority to ordain men, much less women.