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To: Trapped Behind Enemy Lines

“4) Mandatory clerical celibacy was put into force by the Church to fight rampant corruption, primarily nepotism and simony”

The ironic thing is, and sad to say, that this did not stop corruption nor nepotism nor simony. Review 1200-1500


43 posted on 05/22/2014 11:38:57 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: ThomasMore

Thanks for the facts.


58 posted on 05/22/2014 4:18:20 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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