The clergy, as a helping profession, attracts homosexuals, as does education, psychology, scouting, coaching...you add to the list.
Gays will never be eliminated entirely from the priesthood, as they are not eliminated from denominations that allow married ministers.
But, a certain kind of candidate presents himself when he's decided he will be single for the rest of his life. And, in a majority of cases, that man will struggle with being single and celibate.
About half the men in the priesthood are called to celibacy. The rest are either gay or are called to marriage and fight like hell to stay celibate.
The permanent diaconate, which permits married men, ordains about 750 men per year (they must be over 35)in the US. The celibate priesthood ordains about 400, not enough to replace the men who leave or die.
The only vocation in the Catholic Church that is growing is the one that accepts mature married men as candidates.
If that's the question you are asking, you have no business recruiting for a Church. Being a priest isn't about girl friends, its about service and dedication to God.
This is a huge part of the problem. Here in the West everything is about sex. We (and you in your posting) treat the priesthood in terms of who they are sleeping with (or not sleeping with) but that is far outside what a priest is.
As human beings, we are not limited to our sexuality. We are not defined by our sexualality, contrary to what the valueless liberal lobby and the secular left wants you to believe. So long as you buy into their style of thinking, that we must consider sexuality first, then by definition you can't understand celibacy or a true priesthood.
Its a vocation, not a dating club. Treating it like the latter gives rise to all manner of problems as we've recently seen.
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