text: Sr. Sauro has written a moving commentary that expresses the deep sorrow many Catholics are feeling. There could be a solution, but Pope Francis has done little to face the problem head-on.  He will not allow the ordination of women as either priests or deacons. He has done little to bring lay Catholics into positions of authority.  True, he has made efforts to make the hierarchies of the national churches more independent, but even here he is finding push-back.  And there are bishops and cardinals who are doing what they can to slow and even blunt his agenda  He is getting older and his strength is ebbing, and the chances of any meaningful actions are getting fainter by the day.
  
  Sad to say, little is being done.  It is all in the hands of the Holy Sprite. but I dread where he is taking us.