You could be right. Your reasoning seems logical. Question, as I don’t know, has there been a drop in the number of men taking up the priesthood in the present, or has the numbers remained consistent with the past. And if it has dropped, what problem in staffing will this create.
In liberal areas with liberal bishops there is a great lack of men becoming priests, the more conservative areas with traditional bishops have many vocations to the priesthood. But vocations have dropped all over since the advent of modern mores.
The more liberal the diocese, the stronger the push is to have “lay leadership”, priestesses, and clergy in “relationships”. Liberal Catholics HATE the discipline of celibacy, I don’t think you could find a pro-abort/homosexualist/priestess/authority of the Pope hating Catholic pundit who thinks celibacy is of any worth.
Freegards
Seminaries in orthodox dioceses in the United States are growing.