text: Doesn't matter who's pope. The structure is hierarchical and monarchical and unaccountable in the end, leaving women in second-class citizen status under Catholicism and gays, pro-choice advocates, and pro-contraception persons in the sinner category. Why? Because of a sacred text with some oppressive pronouncements in it that play out at the level of cruelly enforced dogma the world over, all in the name of an imaginary firmament.  No amount of fine diction from the columnist and no variations in papal leadership styles will change any of that.