"8 Now to the unmarried[a] and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do."
1 Corinthians 7:6-9 Now as a concession, not a command, I say this. I wish that all were as I myself am. But each has his own gift from God, one of one kind and one of another.
To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.
Paul said that an elder or deacon should be the husband of one wife. Those are the qualifications he laid down for leadership in the church.
Since when does that mean that God changed His mind that it is not good for man to be alone?
Also, demanding celibacy is the mark of a cult.
1 Timothy 4:1-5 Now the Spirit expressly says that in later times some will depart from the faith by devoting themselves to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons, through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared, who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the word of God and prayer.
Priestly celibacy is unscriptural, was not always a part of the Roman church (the OTC that never changes except when it does), was instituted for the wrong reasons (economic- the loss of money by the church), and has done nothing to promote purity, dedication, or loyalty to God and the church.
The continual reports of priests and popes over the millennia of adultery, fornication, pedophilia, etc, shows that the vows of celibacy are treated with contempt. They are not practiced by the men who take them, the consequences are not enforced by the church that demands them of the men entering the priesthood.
The Catholic church as some seriously warped views on sex and obviously considers it, even in the context or marriage, as a bad thing.
If they didn't, they wouldn't promote virginity as such a high ideal for mankind to reach, going against God's command to be fruitful and multiply.
They are forcing the men who want to be Catholic priests to disobey one of God's first commands to mankind.