Amen Violet.

I find it hilarious that women are clerical, in this Cardinals opinion, when they seek the same treatment as men but they don't find men clerical when they want to be ordained.  Quite the opposite - we are pleaded with by our priests to all come together & have parish vocation meetings so that we can pray to have more men to ordain because ordination is so important.

If lay people don't fight bad things like optional celibacy being offered to men for priesthood while we are not ordaining women priests we have no one to blame but ourselves for gender segregation, and the sacramental slavery of women by men in our church.  Nothing starts or continues in a church without at least the cooperation or complacency of the majority of the people.  

Women are voiceless because we do not demand equality, & therefore women are also to blame and are partakers, in the sexism, our church brings to the world which ends in poverty, violence, rape and physical slavery.