[DallasMike]

As to Peter, yes he was married. Do you know for a fact whether he enjoyed relations with this wife AFTER he became Pope?

[1Cor 7:3.7] "The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband."

If Peter was married, they should not have denied each other conjugal rights. To speculate that they could have done so is just that: mere speculation. In all likelihood, they did not.

The rule of celibacy ought to be discarded because it is un-Biblical. However, it bears only a marginal relationship to the problem at hand, which is primarily one of senior church leadershipt tolerating homosexuality, pedophilia, and pederasty by other members of the clergy. I am certain that the problem is not confined to Catholics.

[RobbyS]

Celibacy is not unbiblical, just unjewish, if by Jewish one refers to the norms that developed in the 2nd Century and following. But in the first century we have the Essenes and, of course, the Baptist--and Jesus. How common was it for a Jewish man approaching middle age not to be married? Not as uncommon as you seem to think.

[fatima]

DallasMike,this is a family thread,there is another thread on all this just do a search,we are Catholics here,suffering with our shurch.Do not be a goat but a sheep and pray with us,not to sAY YOU ARE A GOAT UNLESS YOU HAVE A BEARD WHICH i AM SURE YOU DO NOT.

[Salvation]

About Peter:
I know the Bible talks about Peter's mother-in-law, but I am not familiar with the verse and the timing in his life.