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To: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL who wrote (17153)6/20/2005 7:34:36 PM
From: Arthur Radley  Respond to of 52153
 
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Irwin,
It wasn't only priest in the early church that were married, but also the Popes. Seems that the Pope in Rome discovered that all those married priest out in the hinterlands were a very fertile group, thus they had many offsprings to inherit the money being collected rather than being sent to Rome. Simple solution was to ban marriage for the priests. Why do you think there are all those underground tunnels in Florence connecting the convents to where the priest were housed?



To: IRWIN JAMES FRANKEL who wrote (17153)6/20/2005 8:57:48 PM
From: tom pope  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 52153
 
In that same period of 1,600 to 1,800 years, Christian Europe was systematically destroying its best genetic stock through celibacy" of priests and monks, he said.


IJ, the theory doesn't hold water. The Renaissance popes made up for 10 centuries of celibacy by all the other clerics.


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