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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

the FACT remains THERE IS NO PROOF allowing Married Priests means there would be more OR BETTER of them. There would be no Bible without Tradition.


31 posted on 05/07/2014 8:10:55 AM PDT by Solson (The Voters stole the election! And the establishment wants it back.)
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To: Solson

And in the early tradition of Church history, popes, bishops and priests were married men.

Mandatory clerical celibacy was introduced much later-—around the late Middle Ages. The policy was implemented largely as measure to fight corruption and nepotism which was rampant in the Church at that time.


32 posted on 05/07/2014 8:19:22 AM PDT by Trapped Behind Enemy Lines
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