Thank you for the kind words. That was indeed precisely my point. To many good men who are right now consigned to the deaconite or Third order religious life would make excellent priests if they were allowed to be, and people would after the recent scandals, be more inclined to trust a married priest who had children of his own
Your post has had a big effect on me, I have always been very pro-celibacy for the priesthood and have always defended it from the position that ending it would weaken the Catholic church and was a form of attack on it, but you have led me to see that it can strengthen, and perhaps even save the church.
There doesn’t seen to be another way to stop the natural drifting of religious homosexuals and deviants to the priest pool except by totally banning them 100% even on mere suspicion, and that would leave almost no applicants as things stand, and there isn’t very much time left to act because by your estimate, already the majority of priests are homosexual, at some point they will have an iron grip on the system, and then we are looking at corruption within the entire church as they take it over.
The angry public reaction that the Catholic church sees in regards to the gay issue, is the suspicion/fear, that the system has already been accepting closet deviants to make up short falls, for so many generations or decades, that the system itself is compromised, that the deviants are a part of the hiring, training, and disciplinary process now.