Pope Francis is good at window dressing. In 2013, the CDF told the Australian bishops that mandatory reporting for clerics required by their protocol was unacceptable. In 2014, he refused the request of two United Nations committees to impose mandatory reporting under canon law. In 2015, the Italian Catholic Bishops Conference of which he is its senior bishop, repeated that they will not be reporting allegations against clerics to the civil authorities because Italian civil law does not require it. In January 2016, the PCPM said bishops have amoral and ethical duty to report irrespective of civil reporting laws. This does not appear in its December 2016 guidelines. His claimed "zero tolerance" for abusive priests is untrue The figures for dismissal show 75% tolerance. While there may be theological objections to women priests, vicars general, episcopal vicars and judicial vicars cannot be women because canon law requires them to be priests. These are the real issues.