Damn shame too. Being a catholic HS teacher, I see some Sisters who would be great priests. Their faith is unwavering, I simply don't see why someones gender keeps them from attaining the 'top spot' ,if you will, of their church only because they are a woman. Besides the boys in my school love them and respect them more so than the Brothers. For some reason the Sisters have more of a connection with them. The boy will stop what they are doing and help them with tasks - such as stocking shelves in the gear store, making lunches...
Neither is it a matter of job-competence. Look at the whole roster of female canonized saints: teachers, philosophers, spiritual counselors, administrators, organizers, evangelizers, writers,healers, reformers, missionaries --- none were priests. And none railed against this an injustice.
Neither is it a matter of comparative holiness. Mary is the holiest merely-human person ever to live, and in the midst of Mary's lowliest humility it pleased God to exalt her as Queen of Heaven and Earth. If she appeared to the Pope, which of the two, do you think, would drop to their knees? But she was not, and could not be, and even in heaven is not,a priest.
This is because priesthood is not just a "top spot" or a quest5ion of aptitude for the job description. It is a vocation based on a Sacrament, and as n all Sacraments, "Matter matters." It's not a "what you do," it's a "what you are."
There are only two Sacrament --- Holy Orders and Matrimony --- in which the person's sexual bodily deign as male or female has sacramental significance. Not just function, but significance. This is why, even after fertility and childbearing are out of the question, for instance because of age, marriage can still only be one male + one female. Their sex still signifies.
In the Sacrament of Holy Orders, the priest's maleness signifies.
Think of that.