text: Your post just tells me that you still don't get it.  Of course celibacy has a lot to do with the sexual abuse crisis!  No wife of a priest who knew that another priest was abusing children would scream bloody murder both at her priest-husband and the local bishop...it would have ceased the moment it was identified.  Women would not have allowed the coverup from the beginning...many of the celibate male priest/bishops do not live in the real world as far as relationships are defined...and that includes the protection of children.  It may be unproven, but it is certainly likely and probably true.