An end to riverboat silliness?

The Catholic Church gets explicit on female "ordinations." I love how the media covers this ridiculousness. If I claim to be the King of Oregon or the Viceroy of Maine, no one takes me seriously. If a group of women in rainbow colored outfits gets on a boat and does a ceremony then declare themselves priestesses (or as they prefer "Womenpriests") it's widely reported as a valid event that the Church at large doesn't like. How would that work with the tables turned? If I get a janitor from the 4th floor of the CNN building to let me in the building and then into Jonathan Klein's office can I call myself the President of CNN? I suspect not.
May 29, 2008 (RV) The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has issued a general decree regarding the priestly ordination of women.

Signed by the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal William Joseph Levada, the decree was published in Wednesday evening’s edition of the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano.

It states that in virtue of the faculty conferred on the Vatican dicastery by the Churches Supreme Authority, the Holy Father, the Congregation has decreed that in accordance with canon 30 of the Code of Canon Law, both he who has attempted to confer the sacrament of Holy Orders on a woman, and the woman who has attempted to receive said sacrament, incur excommunication latae sententiae, reserved to the Holy See.

The Decree goes on to state that should he who attempts to confer Holy Orders on a woman, or the women who attempt to receive said orders, be subject to the Code of Canon Law of the Oriental Churches, then in accordance with cannon 1443 of the aforementioned code, they will be subject to a greater excommunication, the revocation of which is reserved to the Apostolic See.

The text concludes that the Decree is of absolute, universal and of immediate effect.
So you don't have to look up what this means:

Minor excommunication: exclusion only from the sacraments
Major excommunication: implying exclusion from the society of the faithful (anathema)

"Whoever has thrown away the Divine Eucharist or taken or retained it for a sacrilegious purpose, is to be punished with a major excommunication and, if he is a cleric, also with other penalties, not excluding deposition. who has simulated the celebration of the Divine Liturgy or other sacraments, is to be punished with an appropriate penalty, not excluding a major excommunication."

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