As I have said in other contexts, one of the main problems in developing moral doctrine in the Catholic Church is that ignorance is considered to be no problem. The attendees of the synod on the family were exclusively unmarried men. JPII, despite apparently never having had a really intimate relationship with a woman, wrote Mulieris Dignitatis -- "The Dignity of Women"; similarly, his Familiaris Consortio -- "The Fellowship of the Family" shows his complete ignorance of both women and the part that sex plays in marriage.