I assert that the number of priests would increase TENFOLD if the Church would only allow: women priests, homosexual priests, contraception, abortion, divorce and remarriage, optional Mass on Sundays, no Holy Days of Obligation, rejection of the perpetual virginity of Mary, elimination of the Papacy and what ever else you think might be most pleasing to the ‘Masses.’
Well, then you’d just have Episcopalians, and we already HAVE a buncha those!