"...(the banning of which caused the first major schism in the Church 1000 years ago..."
Source?
"Source"? Such a basic historical fact can be Googled even by a knuckle-dragging hairy Neandertal.
I'll spell it for you: G*O*O*G*L*E
You can find the rest. I'm not your teacher. You don't pay me enough for that.
:0)
OK. I apologize for the last post. The Schism between the East and West churches is a complicated matter, and did not completely occur in 1054 (the date usually used). Reasons for it were poilitical as well as spiritual. Perhaps more political.
I don't know off-hand how big a role the Catholic Church's rejection of married priests around this time affected the Schism (the Orthodox obviously disagreed).
I suspect it was hardly the major cause of the split, but one of those thorny issues driving the two sides apart.
Is that more accurate?