text: Admitting women to ordination will not be a cure-all for clericalism. It would however have more effect than, as you contend, Pope Francis could have by fiat.  "Clericalism" like institutionalism is a defective gene in the civilization psyche; it seems to be recurrent. The involvement of women however would set back clericalism and institutionalism by centuries. "We" will seek an appropriate solution for that intransigance then.