--- Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This incidentally was one of the chief reasons for > incorporating celibacy into the Catholic Church law. > That often, Church property was passed down from > generation to generation when priests could actually > marry and the Church was having none of that. > Mario observes: > When Selma makes such wise-sounding, closed-end comments, as if she knows exactly what she is talking about from sitting at the right hand of Pope Benny XVI, I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Sufficeth to say tears begin to stream down my cheeks:-)) > After wiping my tears I went to the source of all things Catholic [see below] and found the official Theological Basis for Priestly Celibacy, in which I searched and searched and searched in vain for any suggestion that the rationale included the ownership and succession of Church property. Nope. No such concerns. > However, even scanning this dense and complicated theological, man-made rationale brought even more tears to my eyes:-)) > http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cclergy/documents/rc_con_cclergy_doc_01011993_theol_en.html
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