Ping!
I don’t know the details of the European priest sex scandal, but in the US well over 80% of the abuse was of post-pubescent adolescent boys. To put it bluntly, the problem was homosexuality in the priesthood. Assuming the problem is even remotely similar in Europe, I don’t think celibacy is the problem. And the experience in the US certainly proves that the Boy Scouts made the right decision.
Here is the root cause, which is failure to follow the 1961 instruction, “RELIGIOSORUM INSTITUTIO”, by Pope John XXIII:
“Advantage to religious vows and ordination should be barred to those who are afflicted with evil tendencies to homosexuality or pederasty, since for them the common life and the priestly ministry would constitute serious dangers.”
Most of the abuse cases were homosexual in nature. Then when the Vatican announced (under PBXVI) that homosexuals must be screened out of the seminaries henceforth, the liberals all cried “Foul”!
There is no way liberals will ever be satisfied. That is because nothing the Church or in fact any traditional Christian denomination does is ever enough for these atheistic God-haters.