A priest was recently asked about priestly celibacy on a network television program.Sad to say, he responded by nonchalantly stating that the celibacy requirement for priests was only instituted about 800 years ago - "to keep property out of the hands of family heirs."If that were true, celibacy would be worse than wrong.Why a cleric with virtually no critical competence should have been called on as a "spokesman" for the Church can only be explained by the network. The man himself made things worse by his off-handedness.The history of celibacy, as it has been subject to intense scholarly review in...
