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To: Mad Dawg
And this is pretty chronologically arranged: Priestly celibacy in patristics and in the history of the Church. Again, from the Vatican website.
54 posted on 07/27/2008 9:09:38 AM PDT by maryz
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Thank you for that. I had already read the first paper and while I found the interpretation of "the husband of one wife" what I can only call "inspiring" it did not persuade me that Paul was not contemplating married bishops, priests, and deacons.

But I will now study the second. Thanks.

56 posted on 07/27/2008 11:09:25 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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