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Eponymous Flower ^ | 11/10/14 | Giuseppe Nardi

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

I disagree. Mandatory clerical celibacy came about many years after the Church was established and for reasons which have absolutely nothing to do with anything which can be found in the Bible. In point of fact priests were married men in the Bible and most of the early popes were married men as well as the overwhelming majority of the clergy. For further reading, I suggest:

“A Complete History of the Catholic Church to Present Day”
By Rev. John Laux.

Here is a pertinent sentence from that book:

“It is said on good authority that, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, half of the priests, in some countries more than half...lived openly as fathers of families...”

Clerical celibacy was still quite open to discussion, interpretation and practice until the Council of Trent 1545-1563. And really wasn’t tightly enforced for some centuries even after that.

[Arthur McGowan]

That is proof of corruption, not proof that continence for clerics was not the norm.

[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]

Why is it corruption for a priest to be married?

God created Eve because He did not want Adam to be alone. Further, the Good Lord commands us to be fruitful and multiply.

In addition, a married clergy was not only considered normal practice in the Old Testament, it is also specifically permitted in the New Testament.

May I refer you to 1 Timothy 3:2

“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach.”