“She may be a woman, married, a feminist and only 49, but an Irish theologian called Linda Hogan is being tipped as the Vatican’s first lady in red,” said the Irish edition of The Sunday Times. It meant as a cardinal not as the Scarlet Woman. And why not?The possibility was floated in El País, the Spanish daily, on 22 September in a dispatch from Argentina by Juan Arias. “We’re not talking about a joke,” his report began. “It is something that has passed through the mind of Pope Francis: to name a woman as a cardinal.”It had, desultorily, been a topic of dinner-party conversation since at least February 2012, when Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, made remarks on the EWTN niche television channel. “Get this,&rd