Stockholm Cardinal Anders Arborelius thinks the pope should "consider creating a special advisory body of women akin to the College of Cardinals to offer more opportunity for women's leadership in the church."  Arborelius says:  "it's very important to find a broader way of involving women at various levels in the church."

Well, it would be a step forward.  But he needs to include women who really represent the women of today - and that means it must include women who use birth control, limit their family size, have careers and are well educated.  Not just those women, but a good many of them need to live the reality women in the economically advanced nations are living.  

In fact, if this is as far as the Church will go in including women, there need to be diocesan, regional, and national assemblies of women elected by women to represent them.  I can think of a few women I would love to vote for to represent a modern-day female point of view to those old men.