text: I must agree with your comment here, Janhoi.  I would like to say the same thing but with a bit of a different lens, hopefully to add support and even greater clarity to what you share.  In the Catholic Church (and this is equally true for the Orthodox Church) there is more than 25 centuries worth of doctrine and theological writing that supports and reinforces the male-only priesthood and diaconate.  By contrast, it was only in 1958 that women were appointed as pastors in the Swedish Lutheran Church, and the first woman ordained as an Episcopal priest  occurred in 1970.  So to think that Pope Francis - or any pope for that matter - could simply make all of it disappear with the stroke of a pen, or that the protests of a relative few of us will push a pope to do so, or even that there would be enough support for women's ordination at a Church Council, is so unrealistic it is best described as pure fantasy at this point.  Let me continue this in an addendum to follow.
  
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