Ecclesiastical letter

Here is Father John Riccardo.

In his Apostolic Letter on the Dignity of Woman, entitled in Latin, Mulieris Dignitatum, note it's not on the dignity of women, it's on the dignity of woman.

It's a significant difference.

Pope John Paul II reminds us that the Second Vatican Council, especially in the dogmatic constitution of the Church, Lumen Gensum, renewed the awareness of the universality of the priesthood.

Prompted by the introduction in the Anglican Communion of ordaining women, and also by theological debate within Catholic circles, Pope Paul VI directed the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to set forth and expound the teaching of the Church on this matter.

This was done in a declaration entitled Inter Insignores in 1976.

Since the promulgation of this document, there has also followed the Apostolic Letter of Pope John Paul II on reserving priestly ordination to men alone, entitled Ordinatio Sacerdotalis in Latin.

Even after this document, a further statement was issued from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith as to how the Pope's Apostolic Letter was to be understood.

But, oh, no, it was super well spelled out.

So what they had to do right at the very beginning, the request for beatification, you know, after they did the processional, then they did the request for beatification, then his great-nephew, Paul Cunningham came up and gave a short biography, and then there was the reading of the Apostolic Letter in Latin, and then there was the reading of the Apostolic Letter in English, which was done by Bishop Louis Tilka from Peoria.

So all of that started before you got into the more traditional mass parts.

They did all of that up front.