text: I'm going to go way out on a limb here.
  
  I agree that women will never serve as sacerdotal priests as understood by the Roman Church.
  
  I also predict that in time the understanding of the whole notion of sacerdotal priesthood will develop to a new (and hopefully fuller and better) understanding of "priesthood", along with a more relational, less esoteric view of the Sacraments.  The sacerdotal model arose to meet the needs of the Church in history.  I suspect it has outlived its shelf life and must be replaced in time.
  
  There is much talk about a "vocations crisis".  I submit that there is but ONE vocation - being a follower of Jesus in the community of those who have been incorporated into the pattern of Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and ascension.  Everything else is subsidiary to that "Great Vocation" and exists in service to it.