[bourbon]

Eastbound, neither Jesus's celibacy nor priestly celibacy diminish the sanctity of marriage in any respect. Acts of celibacy and dedication to the service and love of God are acts of sacrifice which glorify God and create the opportunities for spirtual fatherhood or motherhood which are different from (but not necessarily better than) actual motherhood or fatherhood.

I, for one, am very glad that Jesus did not have any children. If he had, early Christians would probaby have been torn apart over the question of who were the heirs to his Kingdom, much like the Muslims, whose principal sects argue to this day over who are the proper authorities regarding his teachings--Muhammad's family or the caliphs?

As it stands, thankfully Christ left us no such tangled ambiguities. His legacy was directly bestowed on his Church and the apostles instead.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

It took cBS this long to figure out it was a hoax? There were articles about this and the book Holy Blood, Holy Grail back in the 1980s. Yet, just a year or so ago ABC was still peddling the hoax. No serious historian has gone along with the theory or uncovered any valid evidence which supports it. Even IF Leonardo da Vinci "believed" the Jesus-married-Mary-Magdalen theory, all you have then is some speculation that a fruitcake artist in the 16th century believed a heresy and NOT "proof" that the ideas behind it are true (a rather big distinction). But this kind of thing draws the anti-Catholic kook hysteria out of the woodwork.

What happened to the tunnel the Vatican was building to connect the papal palace to the basement of the White House? [irony, sarcasm, biting satire alert]