text: If you can show a tradition of cardinals publicly questioning papal teaching, I'd probably agree.
  
  Or if you could show a tradition of Popes providing follow up explanations of their publications, I might go along with you.
  
  At issue is the treatment of papal teaching as abstract, alienated teaching instead as the loving work of God. Women who believe God calls them, and people who believe women would serve them better than the men who have been ordained, question JP2's decision. The same people have no particular reason to question Francis' decision. OTOH, so called conservatives question Francis  not for any personal reason, but because of some unquestionable knowledge they pretend to possess.
  
  In any event, accusing the Pope of duplicity is the opposite of the behavior you suggested earlier, of unflaggingly thinking and studying his teaching.