On Tuesday, President Donald Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance attended a prayer service at the National Cathedral,

where an Episcopalian female bishop, quote-unquote, proceeded to lecture them about immigration and people who pretend to be men or women,

which makes sense because she is pretending to be an actual priest. Liberals praised her speech, even though they'd moan and complain if this were a real priest

telling Kamala Harris to remember unborn children. But this incident also raises the larger issue

of the problem with female priests in general, which is why in today's episode I'll share my

favorite argument against the female priesthood. But before I do that, though, two things.

First, I am getting sick, so please bear with me in my voice. And number two, I want to thank the

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So go and check that out. Now, I want to say that at the outset, my favorite argument against

the female priesthood, it's not the best formal argument or case against the female priesthood or for a male-only

priesthood. And it's not the official reason the church gives for why it reserves the priesthood to men.

The primary theological reason is that Christ only chose men to be apostles, even though he was

counter-cultural enough to choose women if he desired women

to serve the church in this way. What this means is that it is not the case that the church won't

ordain women to the priesthood, but that it cannot ordain them to the priesthood. Pope St. John Paul

II put it this way in its apostolic letter, or Nazio Saturotalus. I declare that the church

has no authority whatsoever to confer

priestly ordination on women and that this judgment is to be definitively held by all the church's

faithful. But some people aren't moved by this argument from the authority of tradition, so they might

cite scripture verses like 1st Timothy 212, which says, I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over men.

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