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Re: Virgo Made Male
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Carrol Cox <[log in to unmask]>
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- Ezra Pound discussion list of the University of Maine <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:46:45 -0600
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Various complex trends made clerical celibacy a _possibility_. The
condition that made it _necessary_ was the existence of a "universal"
church depending for its strength upon local clergy in a feudal world.
How do you keep that clergy loyal to Rome rather than the priest's (or
more importantly, Bishop's or Abbot's) own son?

Clerical celibacy held together the medieval roman church.

Carrol

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