text: I observe that this topic of female ordination is creating the same old arguments in the comments here.  It has all be said and debated and countered and confirmed many times before.  What this pronouncement of Pope Francis tells us is that there is no way the doctrinal Church is going to budge on the matter, no matter what.  Women may well be able to be ordained deacons, or not even ordained but appointed so as not to open the ordination door even a crack, but not made priests.  Period.
  So what do we do?  To stand at the doors of the Vatican and scream in protest will yield no results except for losing our voice.  Those who feel strongly about ordination of women but want to remain in a Catholic tradition will move to the Anglican/Episcopal or Lutheran church.  Others will give up on "church" all together and join the "nones" that have grown so substantially in recent years.  But many will not remain with the RCC or join it, and should shake its dust from their shoes.