Women Priests for Catholic Church?

Why does the Catholic Church continue to prohibit women from being ordained priests?

There are references to women disciples in the New Testament. Mary Magdalen was certainly a noted friend and follower of Jesus of Nazareth and showed up numerable times when the male followers were cowering in fear, and denying their Lord.

Pope Benedict XVI recently likened ordaining women priests to "the sin of pedophelia."

A lack of priests in general here in the US has certainly contributed to lessening attendance. How much religious guidance or pastoral support can you get from a man who is saying five masses in three different cities on any given Sunday, as is happening in eastern Idaho?

And yet the current pope compares ordaining women to "the sin of pedophelia?"

The Catholic Church canon law was written in centuries - or even millennia past - when women were considered property; when women couldn't vote; when women couldn't inherit or own property in their own name; when war lords and kings sealed political bargains through marriage or traded cows and wheat for a bride.

Maybe His Holiness should try life in the 21st century and ordain women to the priesthood. God created no second class citizens and is not responsible for and certainly doesn't encourage second class thinking.