If the church wants and needs many new priests, it is going about getting them in the wrong way.  By their exclusions, there are not many men left who they deem worthy.  And if they get rid of the gay priests they have serving now, the situation becomes even worse.  There are many gay priests in our diocese.    Some are celibate and some are not.  All except one that I know off are great priests.  I guess celebrate old men are fixated on sex.   The church makes most of it's prohibitions of a sexual nature.   They tell you what you can do, how you can do it, when you can do it  and with whom you can do it.   However, it seems to me, that doesn't include priests who prey on children and the bishops who allowed them to do it and the cardinals and maybe even the popes who covered it up.    Except for the priests in question, those criminals are still there and our pope should root them out instead of rabbiting on and on about gay priests.