To: ebb tide
It certainly wasn’t always the case that priests couldn’t get married and the decision to stop that was based more on holding onto land that might end up in the hands of divorced wives.
3 posted on
01/12/2020 4:28:02 PM PST by
dp0622
(Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to make ends meet)
To: dp0622
It certainly wasn’t always the case that priests couldn’t get married and the decision to stop that was based more on holding onto land that might end up in the hands of divorced wives. An oft-repeated lie. Priestly celibacy, or more properly constancy, was the rule in the West from Apostolic times.
7 posted on
01/12/2020 5:01:58 PM PST by
Petrosius
To: dp0622
No it wasn’t, that’s just the Protestant lies.
28 posted on
01/12/2020 6:42:46 PM PST by
Wpin
("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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