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To: Popman

“The RCC teaching on celibacy is one I can never understand...”

It prevents dynastic priest families. It is the reason Catholicism and Aristocracy were able to coexist.


34 posted on 01/17/2015 9:05:46 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Born to Conserve
It prevents dynastic priest families. It is the reason Catholicism and Aristocracy were able to coexist.

Having MULTIPLE wifes tends to prevent it; too!

What is WRONG with Mormonism??

80 posted on 01/18/2015 4:26:45 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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