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To: Jim from C-Town

Figures you would resort to ad hominen attack rather defending your position.

Fact is since priests in the Bible were in fact married men as were the early popes, bishops, and priests for more than 10 centuries after the Church was established, one could plausibly argue that a married priesthood IS the tradition of the Church. Mandatory clerical celibacy was not instutionalized until well into the Middle Ages.

Fact is the Church enforced mandated clerical celibacy primarily to combat corruption within the Church, especially nepotism and the transfer of Church property.

Sorry to annoy you with the facts.


102 posted on 03/31/2014 12:30:55 PM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

Nobody claims that celibacy is a dogma of the Church. The Church instituted Priestly Celibacy in the 12th Cnetury.

Nobody denies that the Church had and HAS corruption. The Church is a Human institution populated with REAL LIVE Human beings. They are all fallible and fallen. EVEN THE POPE. That is why he so publicly went to confession the other day.

What the Church says is that the Pope is infallible ONLY when speaking on matters of Faith and Morals and Only when he speaks Ex Cathedra.

What I said wasn’t an attack it I just simple truth. I DON’T CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINION! IT IS WORTHLESS TO ME!


109 posted on 03/31/2014 12:56:04 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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