Denis,
I think you have nailed it pretty well Dennis. The lamentable fact is that women such as Phyllis Zagano seem to identify authority in the Church with the tokens of clericalism. I hope she has become a close student of the drapery and behavior of female clerics among the Episcopal and Anglican peacocks.

A far more important factor in this endless debate, conversation, whatever, is just how many Catholic women and men in the pews give a damn about women deacons, priest, bishops or popes. I think a large number of them would become very interested in seeing non ordained women and men running dicasteries such as the CDF,  the CDW and the Secretariat of State.

Thanks for the informative and polite conversation, Dennis.