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To: Cicero
Well, this is from the same source you disbelieve, but here it is anyway

306-Council of Elvira, Spain, decree #43: a priest who sleeps with
 his wife the night before Mass will lose his job.

...which tells me, along with the previous post, that married priests and apostles and popes
were good enough for Jesus and good enough until at least three hundred years later.  The
'tradition' seems entirely manmade and late in the game.

Oh, and believe me, regardless of the existential consequences, I go where my rationality takes me, leading up to my beliefs.

51 posted on 11/08/2003 9:24:55 AM PST by gcruse (http://gcruse.typepad.com/)
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To: gcruse
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.

106 posted on 11/08/2003 12:57:46 PM PST by Catholicguy (MT1618 Church of Peter remains pure and spotless from all leading into error, or heretical fraud)
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