Of course, God cannot be prevented from being God.  But this is part of the great mystery of Christ and the Church, that God *willingly* submits to the Church and has entrusted to her the power to mediate all vocations.  Individual women may be harmed, but I believe that the men of the Church are the ones who suffer most from the lack of a feminine presence in the hierarchy.  The analogy of the Bride and the Bridegroom, beautiful as it is, is just an analogy and, as such, my no means exhausts the Christ-Church mystery (Ephesians 5:32).  This is very clearly explained in the Theology of the Body, but many people still prefer to remain within the traditional boundaries of patriarchal gender ideology.  Too bad, but this is where we are.  This is more than just discrimination against half of the baptized; it is discrimination against Christ himself, for Christ and the Church are one.  How can a male-only hierarchy make visible the "divine feminine" in Jesus?