Radical Nun Fights for Female Priests in Spain

In a stunning and deeply troubling testament to the ongoing spiritual confusion in segments of the Church, 82-year-old Sister María José Arana, a member of the Order of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Spain, has openly declared her lifelong desire to be a Catholic priest—voicing, in a new book, what she claims is the "global wish" of women longing for ordination. Sister María, who once administered baptisms and led liturgies in the tiny village of Arántzazu without ever receiving Holy Orders, portrays her ten-year role as a “pastora” with quiet pride, despite the fact that sacramental authority rests solely with ordained priests—a divinely instituted order the Church has no power to alter. Her story, now amplified through a German-published book featuring testimonies of 21 women with similar ambitions, presents not just a personal narrative, but a calculated challenge to two millennia of sacred Tradition reaffirmed by Saint John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI. As faithful Catholics, we must see through the disobedient winds of modernism veiled as reform, and remember Christ’s own example and the Church’s clear teaching: the priesthood is not a right, but a sacred calling imparted by God alone,