I don’t think celibacy attracts weak men. They have to be far stronger than I ever could be to keep that vow. I do not believe the problem is priests cannot be married. I believe the problem is declining church attendance overall, thus you have a smaller population to draw from. Many seminaries are awash with homosexuals in their leadership and seminarians who do not embrace or at least tolerate homosexuality are dismissed under the guise that their “lack of tolerance” means they are not pastoral enough to become a priest. Many of the newer priests are coming from Africa and Asia as the Catholic Church makes inroads there. If Europe is to be re-evangelized it will be from clergy from Africa and Asia ... not Ireland. The Church and Christianity in general were brutally repressed by the Communists which I think explains a bit why Poland is one of the few European countries that that is a stalwart to the faith.
Thanks, crusader. You may well be right.
There are many causes of weak leadership and weak priests in the Catholic Church.