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Couldn't Catholic priests get married until approximately 1055 ad ?
3 posted on 12/20/2006 6:30:41 AM PST by IrishMike (Democrats .... Stuck on Stupid, RINO's ...the most vicious judas goats)
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To: IrishMike

No.


10 posted on 12/20/2006 7:33:25 AM PST by klossg (GK - God is good!)
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To: IrishMike

Couldn't Catholic priests get married until approximately 1055 ad ?

Only in certain ecclesiastical provinces and dioceses. The Spanish Church banned married clergy in the 4th century, for example.


20 posted on 12/20/2006 9:00:18 AM PST by Joseph DeMaistre (There's no such thing as relativism, only dogmatism of a different color)
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To: IrishMike

Their were circumstances where it was acceptable for a married man to become a priest (and those circumstances still exist today). But a man who is single and becomes a priest has never been given permission to marry after the fact. At least that's how I understand it.


29 posted on 12/20/2006 1:50:26 PM PST by Rutles4Ever (Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna)
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