text: It's quite possible that the priest shortage is a function of the actual or perceived homosexual culture in the seminaries, as well as a rumored preference for admission of men with deep-seated same-sex attraction.  So, I wouldn't be so sure that allowing married clergy would change the number of men who would consider the priesthood.
  
  Anybody who's married knows that using one's on marriage to counsel another's is folly; all marriages are different.  As far as Catholic marriages go, then, single priests have all the valuable knowledge to counsel married couples as married priests would; many married Catholics forget that their marriage is a covenant with God, a very powerful force.