Celibacy being a personal issue, must be defended, or he would have to come to terms with the fact that for all his own long life, living single was for naught. It would be hard for him to admit this.
Other issues that are really important to all that is holy, such as the lives of innocent, precious babies and other really important moral issues he doesn't properly confront or discipline.
In what planet are you living? BXVI has condemned abortion in the strongest of terms. Celibacy is a call to the priesthood has biblical and traditional support. You need to go familiarize yourself with Catholic saints who were simple priests to theological like St. Aquinas.