Oh no! here they come.
If you want to see roots, go back and reflect on Exodus 19.
When it has not been observed, the problem isn’t who the priests leave their private wealth to, but who the priests try to leave the property that belongs to the Church to.
The Church instituted the discipline of a celibate Priesthood,
1. Because not only is it practical,
Priestly life is not conducive for wife snd family.
and 2. CHRIST thought it was a pretty good idea too.
Matt 19
...and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs
for the sake of the kingdom of heaven.
He who is able to receive this,
let him receive it.”
Bob, the Church lets those receive celibacy for a higher calling.
#1 Paul encouraged celibacy in his letters. He himself was celibate
#2 no, the Catholic church had celibate monks right from the 2nd century. People felt these celibate monks were better than their married priests and clamoured for priests to be celibate from the 8th century, hence the rise of the Norbertines, the Premonstratians. Only in the 13th century with the expansion of the Franciscan mendicant friars was celibacy made a discipline.
At no point was it to gain inherited estates. If you inherited a property while a priest it skipped you and went to the next in line
Yer not wrong. There is nothing stopping the Catholic church from waiving the vow of celibacy. I’m catholic I wouldn’t have a problem with it.