text: This shows me that Pope Francis does not want to treat women as equals. He also seems to want to keep the priesthood as a haven for the sexual predator clergy, putting more children at risk of being sexually abused/raped, in direct defiance of Jesus' command to protect the innocence of children. The Catholic Church would be more healthy if the leadership were free to marry and raise children of their own, and if women as well as men, both homosexual and heterosexual, were in the leadership. By continuing this division of the sexes, many clergy will continue to fear women, just because they have not had much life experience with them. The pope and bishops are all about control. This is not of Jesus, in my view, and it continues to frustrate the plan of God as stated in Genesis 1:26,27, where it says that God made women and men AT THE SAME TIME AND AS EQUALS IN GOD'S IMAGE.
  Sincerely,   Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh, MD, MSpir