Of all the reactions I’ve received about the ordination of women to the priesthood as also of married men, all except one have been in favour. This seems to be fashioning a public opinion which may find its way as ‘the voice of the people which is the voice of God’, but it will take time. The actual magisterium of the Church has made it rather hard. This is what pope John Paul II decreed in 1944:

‘Although the teaching that priestly ordination is to be reserved to men alone has been preserved by the constant and universal tradition of the Church and firmly taught by the magisterium in its more recent documents, at the present time in some places it is nonetheless considered still open to debate, or the Church’s judgment that women are not to be admitted to ordination is considered to have a merely disciplinary force. Wherefore, in order that all doubt may be removed regarding a matter of great importance, a matter which pertains to the Church’s divine constitution itself, in virtue of my ministry of confirming the brethren (cf. Luke 22:32) I declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the Church’s faithful’.

(Ordinatio Sacerdotalis 4).