Why can't there be women priests?

[dwyermd]

Someone that is close to me who is a woman strongly feels the Catholic church has never given any good reasons why women can’t be priests . I don’t know what to say. Can you please help me in this and it would be helpful and anything written by women Catholics would also be helpful. Thanks
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[Augusta_Crowley]

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