Sorry that you don’t understand the facts of early Church history....people who knew Christ and people who knew them.
Salvation:
You are indeed correct, Celibacy is only a discipline and has been taught, in different degrees since the 4th century, at various councils and was clearly taught as a normative discipline at the Council of Chalcedon
Here is an article from a Reformed cite ccel which is entirely consistent with the Catholic article.
http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc02/htm/iv.vi.ccxx.htm
In summary, celibacy has always been a discipline so no Council or Pope can make it dogma, it is not. What you find is the level of teaching on celibacy and to what degree did Pope’s stress it. It is a fact that one Pope as late as the 6th century was married and his son would succeed him as Pope. The last married Pope was Hadrian in the 9th century. So what the Pope Francis said is true in that it was in the 11th century that the Church finally made celibacy the norm for all clergy in the West, but even now, with Anglicans becoming Catholic and ordained as Married priest, we again have a lax in the discipline of celibacy.
Nothing new, northing controversial here except for a certain type of FR protestant here wanting to make something out it so they can entertain themselves, One would think on Sunday, most would be watching their preacher handle snakes and hold their hands in the air and grasp talking in tongues.
>Sorry that you don’t understand the facts of early Church history....people who knew Christ and people who knew them.
I know the Bible. What have you got?