text: Well, that is actually not true at all.
  
  Take the Anglican Church, it has it's share of problems but it has ample priests.  Male & Female, single & married.  We don't have priests - this is not a coincidence.  
  
  Sexism has been proven (so not an opinion) to cause global poverty, division, violence, rape, & child abuse (which explains why many of the children, abused by priests, were those of women who were vulnerable due to becoming recently widowed, or divorced, or suffering mental illness.  These priests general lack of respect for women rendered them unconcerned to use impaired women as tools to get at their children.)  
  
  Celibacy does not cause pedophilia but a male exclusive priesthood attracts such men.
  
  Many young adults here in the U.S. & Europe site our misogynistic treatment of women & refusal to ordain them equally to men as a main reason for leaving Catholicism.
  
  I did not state sexism was our only problem but it is at the root of most of our problems in Ireland & globally.