Seriously, the celibacy is a big part of the problem, from a purely seculare perspective — by restricting priesthood to unmarried men, they pretty much guaranteed a good number of them would be gay, and would therefore target male children, as has been clearly demonstrated.
“by restricting priesthood to unmarried men, they pretty much guaranteed a good number of them would be gay”
I don’t see that. They could fiddle around with girls and women, couldn’t they?