November 3, 2016 
Pope Francis has ruled out a woman ever serving as a priest in the Roman Catholic church.
The declaration is not a change in stance for the Argentinian pope, who has always said the door was closed on women being ordained as priests.
But when he was asked and then pressed on the matter by a Swedish journalist during a press conference onboard the papal plane, Francis suggested the ban would be eternal.
“The final word is clear,” he said Tuesday when asked about women’s ordination during an in-flight press conference returning from Sweden, “it was said by St John Paul II and this remains.”
“Forever?” the journalist asked. “Never, ever?”
“If we carefully read the declaration of St. John Paul II it goes in that direction, yes,” Francis replied.
In August, Francis had raised hopes for those in favor of women’s ordination when he created a special commission to study women deacons in the Catholic Church. Like priests, deacons are also ordained, so the thinking went that if Francis allows women deacons, he might also allow women priests.
-CNN
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