[newberger]

Canon 3 refers to UNMARRIED women, not clerical marriage.

[ebb tide]

The new historical reconstruction, which has had its most notable scholarly proponents in Christian Cochini and Alfons M. Stickler, demonstrates instead that celibacy was already being observed in apostolic times, and was a universally recognized law for centuries in the Church, in both the West and the East. This law was made concrete both in the impossibility for celibates to marry after priestly ordination and in "continentia," meaning the interruption, for married men, of sexual relations with their wives after ordination.

[ebb tide]

Canon 3 refers to UNMARRIED women, not clerical marriage.

On the contrary, it's obvious that Canon 3 refers to no such thing.