Once again the Roman Catholic Church - the "universal" and the more national bodies - is not only missing a epochal opportunity and obligation to BE the leader it claims to be but, by inaction, it is refusing to be what it claims. The way requires that the church acknowledge its "sacredly" guarded tradition of treating women as utilitarian and "theologially" rationalizing diminution and exclusion, while lauding the porcelain virtues of  feminine "waiting", "nurturing", "serving". It would require repentance, renewal and welcoming women into full inclusion sacramentally and institutionally. 
They/we will watch a few dispensables  go "under the bus" but stay "with the message":
As the child prays: "Hail Mary, in your place...."
"When will we ever learn/When will we ever learn."