"They are standing at the door, rapping, waiting to take possession of their church, praying for an angel to break the locks and fling open that door."  Ummm, no.  As poetic as this sentence may be, neither I nor any woman or man I know (all now formerly Catholic) waits for any angel to do diddly.  WE have been commissioned to be the Body of Christ, to act as Jesus, live as Jesus, love as Jesus.  Misogyny is as evil as racism, as all other forms of exclusion and elitism.  It is OUR job to speak up, act out, resist, disobey, highlight this evil and offer remedies for its vanquishment. WE are the "angel" that will rid the institutional Church of this massive current and historical wrong.  As harsh as it sounds, I believe those who are NOT lobbying for change are part of the passive mechanism that keeps misogyny in place...exactly the same as all who kept silent or knuckled under during the worst of the child sexual abuse nightmare.  

Otherwise...thanks, NCR.  Excellent editorial.