THANKS, PAL: Pope Francis: Listen to women, men are too machista.

Pope Francis has called on men to listen to women as they have “much to tell us.” Women are able to ask questions that men can’t grasp, the pontiff told an audience in the Philippines, where his comments drew instant applause.

“Women have much to tell us in today’s society,” Francis told a mostly male audience at the Catholic University of Santo Tomas in Manila, on the last day of a weeklong visit to Philippines and Sri Lanka. . . .

“At times we men are too ‘machista’, the Argentinian pontiff said using word for the term for extreme male chauvinism in his native Spanish.

We “don’t allow room for women but women are capable of seeing things with a different angle from us, with a different eye.” . . .

“When the next pope comes to Manila, let’s please have more women among you.”

Has the pope ever told a gathering of mostly women that they need to listen to men more and stop being so bitchy? I wonder how that’d go.

UPDATE: A transcript of his remarks in the original Spanish, as well as a translation, are available here.