Pope Francis may feel restrained by Scripture and Tradition from having women priests. But there are three other significant positions in Church governance which have no sacramental or liturgical role, and which canon law says cannot be filled by women. Bishops have supreme legislative, executive and judicial power within their own dioceses with canon law being their only restriction. Canon law permits the delegation of executive power to vicars general and episcopal vicars, and judicial power to judicial vicars, but Canons 478 and 1420 require all of them to be priests. Canon law permits women to be chancellors but their role under canon law is to take care of the bishop’s curia records and archives. The prohibition on women performing important administrative and judicial functions without a dispensation from the men in the Vatican is pure clericalism, which Pope Francis has often condemned. He can change this with a stroke of his pen.