To: Jim from C-Town
We might then actually be on the same page based on what you just wrote.
I know WHY the Church institionalized mandatory clerical celibacy in the Middle Ages. And they had good reason AT THAT TIME to do it. Question remains: Is it still necessary? If so, why?
Some seem to think I should be kicked out of my Church merely for raising the question. I hope you are not one of them.
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
It can’t really be called necessary when so many churches in full communion have married priests, can it?
117 posted on
03/31/2014 1:39:13 PM PDT by
Mad Dawg
(In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.)
To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
On this point I think we agree. The Church NEVER said that celibacy was biblical. It was certainly instituted for organizational purposes. There are reasons beyond that as to why it was instituted but it was never a matter of faith and morals.
119 posted on
03/31/2014 1:54:38 PM PDT by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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