How very true, monica.  The missing ingredient to force these "ordination" issues into an open discussion throughout the Church - even despite the opposition of the hierarchy - is a loud and sustained clamor from the laity.  If the largest group within the church is not heard with a booming voice that resonates in every chancery and Vatican office, consistently, then those prelates, who are so very, very skilled at (a) not listening and (b) dismissing the laity as "children," will have no reason to do anything different.