text: "... a prelude to the ordination of women."
  
  Naturally, an overture, an opening, an exhordium, etc.!! But no pope, who wants to avoid a schism, will implacably embrace women's ordination on his own. Why isolate himself from a Council's experts and his bishops, and their calm-hearted, well thought out, obvious "secret," as it were? So some day, when some pope calls an Ecumenical Council for this end (women's ordination) and for just as many other issues (among the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches and Western/Roman/Latin Church), he will cross that brief forgetful comment of Francis and resolve the issue collegially -- as St. John XXIII and Paul VI "resolved" any number of liturgical and ecumenical issues at Vatican II, then promulgated the results, the decrees. May it come soon? Yes indeed, to resolve many issues, not just women's ordination! Pew study says by 2050, the CC will have 1.5 billion members. God help the future pope who'll have to deal with these issues the length of centuries!