Someone is crying fowl (broadly speaking)!
LOL!!! Given this Pope it would not surprise me to see him appoint a female Cardinal. He seems to be very unconventional and saying things that seems to be out of the norm of traditional Catholic teaching. Already I don’t know how many articles have been published or how many electronic digits have been sacrificed to tell us what the Pope really meant to say. I wonder if they did their homework when they appointed him.
What will be a hoot is when our Catholic friends trying to justify the Pope appointment of a female Cardinal after they’ve argued against it. All of a sudden it will be a wise decision or they’ll grudgingly accept it. Don’t be surprise to see an article or two on how Mary was actually the first Cardinal. After all, she advised our Lord Jesus to turn the water into wine. That should qualify for something. ;O)
I suppose in the end our Catholic friends will just chalk it up to the Pope infallible wisdom and we’ll hear how this was Church teaching all along. Much like many other things we’re told to believe.