Is the Vatican clericalist in all the wrong places?

Cardinal Müller's suggestion that a woman could serve as Secretary of State has been laughed at in the Vatican. But what's so funny about the idea?

Cardinal Gerhard Müller suggested recently that the Vatican could appoint a layman or woman to serve as Secretary of State, in line with curial reforms issued by Pope Francis last year.

The suggestion from the former prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has been widely taken as either ironic, or as a barbed attempt at humor around the V…