I have (not exactly on-fire Catholic) extended family members who think the solution is letting priests get married. Truly astonishing......
This is NOT the solution to the problem. To me, the discipline of celebacy is a side issue that has contributed, to one degree or another, to the problem.
The point people are trying to make was that if married priests were allowed, they would have a larger pool of candidates for the priesthood from which to choose.
Do you have any better ideas? Or must you cling to your mystique that we can make priests in our own image?
There are a lot of misfits (not just perverts) serving as priests and it isn't fair to them or to the people.
The pressure on those priests is terrible and many of them lead a life of unhappiness and unfulfillment because of impositions that even Christ did not insist upon.
By expecting so many men to live up to impossible standards, unless it is truly their nature, we are being extremely selfish and we are part of the problem.