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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
Compulsory clerical celibacy was implemented to stop the transfer of Church properties from father to son

I think this is an urban legend. The "Church properties" didn't belong to the priest in the first place, nor do they now.

45 posted on 03/12/2015 1:38:11 PM PDT by Campion
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To: Campion
I think this is an urban legend

I agree, however, there was the issue of benefices.

46 posted on 03/12/2015 1:40:56 PM PDT by Legatus (Either way, we're screwed.)
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Actually, simony-—the sin of buying and selling ecclesiastical preferments, benefices etc, and nepotism were rampant among the clergy during the Middle Ages. So were other corrupt practices including the sale of papal indulgences which lead to the Reformation.


132 posted on 03/13/2015 8:58:27 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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