Actually, CANON 1024 is an artificial contraceptive of female priestly vocations.  This  is plainly albeit ambivalently stated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1598, which succinctly states that the male-only priesthood is a CHOICE (first sentence) and WHO can make the choice (second sentence).  Everything is connected.  As long as the conflation of patriarchal gender ideology and sacramental theology is not clarified, the confusion about moral issues of human sexuality cannot be resolved.  I think our good pope is painfully aware of this, and he is trying to work things out in the most merciful way possible, but he is prolonging the agony.  I also think he is a fearless man, not intimidated by threats, but trapped in a high security patriarchal prison.