There is no disagreement with points 2 and 3. A for point 1, the historical record shows that in the West clerical celibacy goes back the the earliest years of the Church and was instituted for spiritual reasons. If you want to argue that what is only a discipline should be changed, fine. It is a false argument, however, to state that is was an invention of the Middle Ages instituted for financial reasons. Why keep resorting to it if it is not true?
I did not say celibacy was invented in the Middle Ages.
I did say the Church’s policy of compulsory clerical celibacy was not widely enforced, implemented, and institutionalized until the Middle Ages as many if not most priest, bishops (and yes a number of the early popes) were married men. As were priests in the Bible. What is the spiritual or biblical reason prohibiting a priest or bishop from being married? St. Paul states:
“A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife, vigilant, sober, of good behavior, given to hospitality, apt to teach.”
1 Timothy 3:2
Since priests were married men in the Bible from Aaron on down. Since the Lord commands us to be fruitful and multiply. Since God create Eve because He did not want Adam to be alone. It seems to me Holy Matrimony is God’s plan. Why should that be deprived to a priest?