The best choice for pope? A nun.

[muriel_volestrangler]

48. Look at contraception

It's 45 years since Humanae Vitae. A commission had recommended that contraception, for married couples, would be acceptable; but the Pope decided it wasn't, and that attitude had ruled the official stance ever since (there's recently been the slight "use condoms if one of you is HIV positive" exception, but that's for health), despite it being obvious that the vast majority of Catholics want to use it at some time (and, when they can obtain and afford contraception, they do). Catholic popes have stuck to what their predecessor said; they just hate to acknowledge that a pope can be wrong.

If most Catholics are like you, and say you won't leave the church, whatever faults stay in place, what are the chances of a pope saying "this absolute ban on ordaining women, which we've had for nearly 2000 years - all these popes and cardinals, who appointed us, they were wrong all along! We should have been sharing our power with another half of our society. Silly us"? The problem is that they see no need to evolve, if there's no pressure from people leaving.