It can also be a sentence to a life of loneliness, prideful and unremitting mean-spiritedness, lack of satisfaction and limited effectiveness. We obviously can find non-celibate people to lead and inspire us in so many secular and religious occupations, why not priesthood, too? No one is "freed" to engage in a ministry. Instead everyone is "called" to be a minister in whatever life situation they find themselves. 

The church still has a long way to go to offer healing and growth to molested victims.