This article is from a Swiss news agency, but that problem of language and definitions remains:

Women have been ordained Catholic priests in the past. In 2002, a group of seven women from Germany, Austria and the US entered the priesthood after a ceremony on a Danube cruise ship.

Two male bishops oversaw that ordination. This time it will be three female bishops leading the ceremony.

Rome has not shown any Christian tolerance to women priests. All those who have been ordained – including the three women bishops – have since been excommunicated on the basis that canon law only allows baptised men to enter the priesthood.

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