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To: Weiss White

The Catholic Church could further extend its advocacy of marriage by allowing priests to be married. There is absolutely NOTHING in the Bible mandating a celibate priesthood. Priests, bishops, and popes were in fact married men for at least the first ten centuries of Church history. Mandatory celibacy was largely instituted in the Middle Ages as a way of combating corruption within the Church, nepotism, and the transmission of Church property.


14 posted on 02/21/2014 6:56:34 AM PST by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Interesting that those who advocate the non-celibacy of priests are not priests themselves.

Jesus wasn’t married. Also you are completely wrong about the bible. 1 Cor 7: 7-9 Is just one example.

Its not an impossible life. It is actually a means for opening gates of grace that would not be possible in a married state. There still are plenty of men willing to give up a family life for the sake of the people they serve.


36 posted on 02/21/2014 9:14:50 AM PST by Bayard
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