text: How many of those Bishops that the Pope spoke to were women? I grew up in the Catholic Church, and was constantly told by the Church and my parents that women were not as "human" as men. I had to wear a covering on my head--and my brother did not--because lowly female gender was not good enough to go before the presence of God with my head uncovered. Whenever I voiced my desire to go to college, I was screamed at to, "let some man take care of you!" I was one of the smartest girls in my huge school. The Catholic Church has long preached inequality and hatred of anything that is not "human male." Little kids and women were to be abused and demeaned (thus the horrible and inhuman abuse of young children by priests). After all, children were lowly like women.
  If the Church wants to encourage healing, then give up your misogynistic ways and prejudices that are so common in societies of this world.
  Of course, I left the Catholic Church as soon as I left home. Don't preach your lies to me.