Being a priest is not being a public worker who is only here to give the sacraments. Being a priest is being an exact imitation of Christ to the best of our abilities. The first and biggest core mission of a priest or any cleric is to imitate Jesus in every aspect of life. being a priest, bishop or any type of cleric is to imitate Jesus to the fullest extent. Jesus was a man and didn't marry, and his apostles also were celibatary men. To be a priest is to be an apostle of Christ. That doesn't mean that the others can't be his disciples too. But they aren't his apostles, part of the 12. Jesus and his apostles were all celibatary men, that's why only men are priests and they have to be celibatary. Because they are here to imitate Jesus. To be like Jesus. Jesus was a man. So a priest is naturally a man. It has nothing to do with equality and male power of female representation. This is pure corruption, gaslight, a distortion of our religion. When my celtic-iberian ancestors worshiped mother nature, we also used to have only female clerics. The high priestess would dress in nice clothes and be painted with poisonous paint that would make her die earlier is used too much. She used to be assisted by other priestesses who were also there to represent mother nature. If we can have a religion representating a female figure, we can also have a religion representating a male figure.