Nice guy - naive too.  Its a shame.  We are losing women, especially young women, to the Nones, and just in general, more than even protestant churches but not one mention that maybe we need to treat and ordain them as equals in this article.  

As I reminded a Catholic Friend of mine lately, there is freedom to discuss, on our altars,  the lives of child molesting, gay and transgender murdering, prostitute, priests, with three wives on the side, but I better not suggest God ever called any women to ordained priesthood.  

I do believe we need to work something out for LGBT in the form of them having a way to avow to each other fidelity in their relationship before friends and the church. At the present, just having rules enforced by pastors that these families must be treated the same as heterosexual families and welcomed the same would be a huge improvement.  We also need to have bishops who don't allow LGBT teachers to be fired from RC schools.  There is no excuse for this.