text: "...we will have a Pope who will wave a checkered flag for the ordination of women...."
  
  An Ecumenical Council of bishops and theologians will wave that checkered flag (if at all), not a Pope. It will be all enterprise, all theological, all collaborative, all collegial to avoid institutional quarrels (among the different Catholic Churches and their bishops) and schisms (whose ruins are eternal). At 79, Francis is wise to stay away from this issue (unless he convokes a Ecumenical Council on his deathbed). Anyway, Francis knows there is somebody wiser than a pope, and that is an Ecumenical Church Council, a corporate body of believers led by the Holy Spirit.