I'm more optimistic. I think the Catholic Church will ordain women in about a hundred years - 150 years after it should have.

Our new Filipino priest gave a sermon on why the Church will never ordain women a couple weeks ago - at the Sisters of Mercy convent, a place full of nuns who are twice his age and more, and far better educated. The nuns said it was cowardly of him to make such a statement from the pulpit during Mass, in a situation that didn't allow for disagreement. They want him to return and discuss the matter over lunch. I gave him a little lecture about the matter this morning, but I don't know if it sank in.

-Joe-