Sophistry. And odd that the RC denomination would make Paul (rather than married Peter) the norm for its strange traditions.
Paul made it clear that the elders of the Church had a right to marry.
"Do we have no right to take along a believing wife, as do also the other apostles, the brothers of the Lord, and Cephas?" (1 Cor. 9:5)
"A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach;" (Titus 3:2)
The abnormality and degenerative effect of the RC priesthood requirement is evident.
Denial is not just a river in Egypt.
It is not “sophistry” to say that no one is forced to become a priest, and that it is not an entitlement. That is a simple statement of fact.