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Clerical celibacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Clerical celibacy is the practice in various religious traditions, in which clergy, monastics and those (of either sex) in religious orders adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage and sexual ...
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Again, Fundamentalist time lines of "Catholic inventions" (a popular literary form) assign "mandatory priestly celibacy" to this or that year in Church history, as if prior to this requirement the Church could not have been Catholic.
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These are stories from past, or back, issues of the National Catholic Reporter, the NCR. ... Whoa, slow down a minute on the celibacy talk and married priests. Let’s remind ourselves how the Catholic church got into the celibacy mess.
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NOVEMBER 1992;; CELIBACY DEFINED;; THE HISTORY OF CELIBACY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH; THE SCRIPTURAL SIDE OF THE ISSUE;; CATHOLIC THINKERS-IN THE CLEAR? ; MISOGYNY AND THE FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE;; THE MARRIAGE OF SPIRITUALITY;; CELIBACY AS A PROCESS;; GEORGE S. ; CURRENT EVENTS;; SUMMATION;;
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The concept of priestly celibacy originates from the Church's teaching on the superiority of virginity and consecrated celibacy. Since Apostolic times, virginity has always been considered more ideal because of the single-minded devotion it allows for the pursuit of holiness.
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"Husbands love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her... ... (Cambridge History of the Bible Vol 2 p 84). Jerome in a preface addressed to Pope Damascus said: "You asked me to ... There were women who welcomed this advocacy of celibacy for many found male demands on them were arrogant and controlling.
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The new Catechism of the Catholic Church (n. 1579) seems to take the same line. Out of prudence, however, it omits to mention the canon law on celibacy, which nonetheless forms part of Church law today (CIC 277 par. ... But first let us briefly investigate whether, in the history of exegesis and canonical legislation,
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