No, the problem is that they’re not chaste. On the other hand, being married is not necessarily a help if a man is a homosexual or a child molester. I saw that in the Orthodox Church, where most of the priests are married (they have to marry before ordination), but a shocking number of them were gay and there were also child abuse problems, all covered up.
Protestant churches also have this problem, even though their clergy is married, but the target of the press has traditionally been the Catholic Church, so that’s why you don’t read so much about it. But if you look at the statistics, you’ll see.
The big problem - well, actually, there are two big problems - is clericalism on the one hand, and the invasion of all the Christian churches by Freudianism, which made “sexual expression” the be-all and end-all of everything, and told decent Christians that they were being “repressed” unless they did this. All the churches adopted this as their de-facto model after the collapse of the Catholic Church at VII.
No, the problem in the whole mess isn’t that homos managed to infiltrate and abuse minors. Catholics keep making it about the abuse and comparing themselves to others to prove they are not so bad.
It does happen everywhere and people need to be vigilant for it.
But the problem in Catholicism is not so much that the abuse happened, but how it was handled. And we keep reiterating that point and Catholics as a whole keep ignoring it and finger pointing at others to prove they are not so bad.
In my experience in the 40+ years as an Evangelical, any time there’s an issue of morality, it’s been dealt with. I don’t see the large scale cover up in any other denomination like has happened in Catholicism.
What’s going on in Catholicism with the cover up involved rivals the cover up involving the Clinton’s and Podesta.
THAT’S the bigger issue. The abuse is bad enough.
The way it was handled was reprehensible.
While there may be some issues in other churches no where will you see the systemic cover up and protection of the guilty parties that you see in the Roman church