Women are valued under Pope Francis but subordinate to men

At the end of 2014 we were still waiting for any concrete improvement in the position of Roman Catholic women. Roman Catholic policies on Poverty and contraception keep many women trapped at home strugling to look after more Children than they can easily manage.

Women cardinals have been ruled out leaving us less optimistic over women getting any major leadership opportunities. Francis said, "Women in the Church must be valued not ‘clericalised’. Whoever thinks of women as cardinals suffers a bit from clericalism." That's completely untrue, those who would like to see women cardinals want more equality between the sexes they may or may not also want clericalism. It looks like women should value their subordinate role while only men are in dominant clerical positions. Is it also clericalism to prevent non-ordained people becoming cardinals? "Or is the act of clericalism assuming that top Vatican posts must be held by cardinals, or at least by priests and bishops? Is it clericalism to only allow cardinals a vote in choosing the pope? Is Francis only furthering the notion of clericalism by even naming cardinals in the first place?" Unless Francis works to reduce the influence of clerics drastically in the Roman Catholic Church it will look like stuff about suffering from clericalism is really just an excuse to keep male clerics dominant. The signs aren't very good. "If you believe that advocating for a woman cardinal smacks of 'clericalism,' then what does an all-powerful, all-male college of cardinals smack of? If you are against clericalism, then dismantle it. If you are not, then end the church's indefensible gender apartheid and open the doors of sacramental and executive power to women."

Francis cracked down on the LCWR who represent over 80% of Nuns in the USA. The LCWR are more liberal than the Vatican about issues like, Abortion, Birth control, homosexuality, women's ordination, so what should we expect? Well under Benedict XVI male supervisors were appointed but the women would not let the men pressure them to change their position. Pope Francis has also turned against the Liberal women and some Americans Feminists are turning against Pope Francis.