[Petrosius]

The Church was a thousand years old before it definitively took a stand in favor of celibacy in the twelfth century at the Second Lateran Council held in 1139, when a rule was approved forbidding priests to marry.

This misrepresents the reality. Celibacy, or more precisely continence, was the practice in the Latin church from the earliest years. The Second Lateran Council did not establish a new practice but merely restated, and called for it to more rigorously enforced, a practice that was already well established. The exceptions that existed at the time should not be seen as denying that celibacy had been the universal rule in the Latin church for centuries.

[Vineyard]

My stuff was a ‘cut and paste’...and I posted the actual source on how the Catholic Church was ‘dealing’ with the idea of celibacy ....(by tolerating and ignoring priests having ‘concubines’). I posted the source to that.

You made a statement ....please provide a good credible source/reference for your statement.