text: Your argument strikes me as rather odd, to be honest. 
  
  *Of course* people find it difficult to live with celibacy; do you think our Lord Jesus didn't know that, when he encouraged it? Do you think St. Paul didn't know that? Likewise, people find fasting and all manner of self-denial and self-sacrifice difficult. That these things are difficult doesn't really call into question their value, nor the value of encouraging them in some cases, and requiring them in others.
  
  In any case, you haven't rebutted my prediction that this will mean, in effect, *fewer* priests, rather than more.