If I had a chance to talk to Pope Frank, I would say, “If women can’t be priests because all the apostles were men, well, they were all Jewish, too. So shouldn’t priests have to be Jewish?
PHILADELPHIA — The passing crowd’s responses to the banner outside the World Meeting of Families and the women in priest’s collars holding it ranged from revulsion and anger to confusion and praise. “Amen!” a middle-aged woman cried, nodding her head and smiling, while another said, “Maybe in heaven, but not here.” “That’s just wrong!” another woman…

They just need three bishops and the can go their own way. It’s been done before.
And carpenters and fishermen.