[Catholicguy]

It doesn't tell me that. It merely tells me the penalty was codified.

If you are interrested, there is a book that Documents the "Apostolic Origins of Priestly Celibacy," and it was writen by Christian Cochini.

Or, you can continue to ignorantly rant that your desires/opinions are Ecclesiastical History.

[gcruse]

It tells me Jesus surrounded himself with married disciples, and that the first pope, Peter, was also married. That tells me celibacy was on nobody's mind. Seeing that priests were advised to not sleep with their wives before Mass as late as AD 300 tells me celibacy is just something created for its own ends hundreds of years later. There is no benefit to it in God's eyes, inasmuch as it is not commanded nor even preferred by Jesus for his followers. I don't need to read apologetic treatises to see what is before my very eyes, as Martin Luther also came to realize.