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I think he likes women who are meek and submissive and Mother Theresa types. Few women would get even a chance to present their opinions to him personally, and if they did, they had better not cross him.

He was very cold to the Pakistani woman from the UN who visited him in the Vatican, according to a biographer. Sorry I can't remember the book, but next time I go to the library, I'll try to find the book copy out the few paragraphs.

The woman described telling him about how terrible some of the rules about birth control and abortion affected some catholic women in cultures where women have no equal rights whatsoever. She described his eyes as turning steely cold and assumed it was because few people dared to challenge him, especially women. She concluded that he could be very cold. When the interview concluded, there was no photo op. She got the message

I'm not at all implying that from his treatment of the Pakastani woman that the rules should be relaxed because of this or that. I do think that the pope could have been more compassionate to her views, even if he didn't see it her way. She definitely made a point about how terrible it can be for some women having too many babies in some poor countries.

To bury one's head in the sand and think that everybody should follow the rules at all times and human misery will be relieved should think again. Some of the rules cause a lot of human misery. The hierarchy needs to be more understanding of the plight of women and what the birth control restrictions cause in modern families. Men who don't have to go through the post partum stuff and all the sleepless nights think they know it all and come down too hard on some people.

I think he likes women who are meek and submissive and Mother Theresa types.

If I remember my Beatitudes, meekness is a virtue in men and women.

He was very cold to the Pakistani woman from the UN who visited him in the Vatican, according to a biographer ... The woman described telling him about how terrible some of the rules about birth control and abortion affected some catholic women in cultures where women have no equal rights whatsoever. She described his eyes as turning steely cold and assumed it was because few people dared to challenge him, especially women.

My eyes grow steely cold just reading this. The woman in question was an ambassador for the Culture of Death. The Pope reacted exactly as he should have when such an emissary of Satan entered his presence. Birth control and abortion are condemned by the Church for very legitimate reasons. These reasons should become all the more clear to people as science sans ethics continues to create new grotesqueries by playing god with human sexuality.

She got the message.

Probably not. I'll bet she's a member of 'Catholics for Free Choice.'

I think he likes women who are meek and submissive and Mother Theresa types.

You obviously don't know much about Mother Teresa. She was a very strong woman -- "meek and submissive" doesn't describe her. The most corrupt government bureaucrats that she had to deal with with were intimidated by her, because she didn't take any crap from them.