“As far back as 1975, the Pontifical Biblical Commission unanimously agreed that the New Testament itself does not settle the issue about the possible ordination of women. The fact that Jesus picked ‘men only’ is not the position of the Church for its current teaching. Our Church’s leaders main argument against ordination of women is that a woman cannot symbolically represent Christ who is male. That is an increasingly difficult reason to convincingly argue the point. And it is not Catholic to believe that our Holy Father gets private messages from God to impart to, and with which to bind, the whole Church.” Father Dan Holland in the August 17 bulletin of St. Pius X.

“She(the Church) holds that it is not admissible to ordain women to the priesthood, for very fundamental reasons. These reasons include: the example recorded in the Sacred Scriptures of Christ choosing his Apostles only from among men; the constant practice of the Church, which has imitated Christ in choosing only men; and her living teaching authority which has consistently held that the exclusion of women from the priesthood is in accordance with God’s plan for his Church.

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(St. Pius X?) 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. Lk 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.” Pope John Paul II in Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, May 22, 1994.

Hopefully this will clear up the apparent confusion over women’s ordination at St. Pius X. I don’t think Pope John Paul II wrote this after getting a “private message from God”. He did write it after the subject had been thoroughly examined by theological experts.

Ordinato Sacerdotalis emphasizes repeatedly that Jesus picked only men as His apostles. This Apostolic Letter to the bishops was written only 14 years ago. That would seem to be pretty current.