There are few things more unfashionable in the Year of our Secular Overlords 2025 than to suggest that the Catholic Church might be right. And no issue seems to incense the progressive class more than that of female ordination.

Yes, of all the civil liberties we have been denied throughout the centuries, it is the plight of women wanting to wear a cassock and collar that is our greatest injustice. The argument for women priests is advanced as though it were an inevitability: the obvious next step on the escalator of progress. It is the 21st century, after all. If women can be judges, generals and airline pilots, why not clergymen, too?