Would you have considered being a priest if you had been allowed to marry?
I feel it's sophistry to argue that Catholic rules engender evil.
The evil that was committed was transferring priests to other towns and churches so that they could harm other children.
Pederasts are all around us. Many of them aren't even Catholic.
Yes, pederasts are everywhere children can be found. Whenever a pastor, teacher, or coach sexually assaults a child, he must be investigated by authorities, not transferred.
Now this is an interesting question. I don't know. I went to school with young men who were embarrassed to say they were seminarians. I never was, even when I went in the military.
I never realized until I was about forty that the Gospel of John was written for me, personally. The Gospel of John changes everything. John tells us we all have a real shot at the big prize even if we can't brag about our lives to this point. The others say much the same but not with the same eloquence.
I think I might have made a good priest. I think I might have made a great one if the option of joining the Archdiocese of the Military were ever presented. The key to the city would have been female companionship. It wasn't in the cards in those days.
The evil that was committed was transferring priests to other towns and churches so that they could harm other children.
This was AN evil that compounded the evil. I think bishops that did this were either pederasts themselves or earned for themselves reservations in the deepest regions of hell or both. If they are extant, and it can be proved, they need to be put in prison.
Bishops who transfer evil don't play by the rules. They never have.