What’d really decrease the proportion of homosexuals and pedophiles in the priesthood is allowing priests to marry.
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What substantive proof do you have for such a statement?
A celibate profession disproportionately attracts people accustomed to concealing their sexuality. Homosexuals do to a significant degree, and pedophiles do to the ultimate degree. On the flip side, celibate professions are particularly off-putting to people with a normal, healthy sexuality, which people aren’t accustomed to hiding.
Nor are these ill fruits of celibate professions unique to Catholicism. The ranks of Buddhist monks in Thailand, for instance, are full of homosexuals.
I might add that it’s bizarrely ironic for the pro-life Catholic Church to forbid its clergy bringing life into the world. That’s an anti-life position any way you slice it.