"It is very painful and they will make it for us Christians ever more difficult, I am sure," he said, adding that Catholics must press for the right to live by their consciences if they were not to face harassment or even jail in the future."

Wow!  This guy really doesn't get that we treat women, in particular bishops, like they are lesser human beings & that this is actually our gender problem as a church.

Our hierarchy so stuck on stereotypes has perhaps been the number one creator of the desire to change genders.  Most people, I hear, who speak about wanting to change their gender, only really want to be allowed to live comfortably in the stereotype of the opposite gender.  Men think they are born wrong because they want to be caregivers rather than Corporate CEOs.  Women who are called to be priests, not nuns, think am I a man?

Did this cardinal ever consider maybe Jesus would like HIS church to grow, and act with justice, & that maybe it is our misogyny that is confusing folks?