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	Clerical celibacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Clerical celibacy is the practice of various religious traditions in which clergy, monastics and those in religious orders (female or male) adopt a celibate life, refraining from marriage and sexual relationships, including masturbation and "impure thoughts" (such as sexual visualisation and fantasies).
		This vow of chastity is different from clerical celibacy because the promise is made directly to God, while the promise of clerical celibacy is made to the church alone.
		The doctrinal consensus of the reformers in this point was reflected in the marriages of Zwingli in 1522, Luther in 1525, and Calvin in 1539; in England, the married Thomas Cranmer was made Archbishop of Canterbury in 1533.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Clerical_celibacy (2146 words)

	Catholic Scandals: A Crisis for Celibacy? by Leon J. Podles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dozens of cases involving clerical "pedophilia" have been tried in the courts, several priests have gone to jail, and various dioceses have had to pay out tens or perhaps even hundreds of millions of dollars (the exact sums are often in sealed settlements) to the victims.
		Many clerical marriages are exemplary and edifying, but the lot of a married cleric is not easy.
		Clerical celibacy was a source of contention even in the patristic period; clerics were often punished for violating the canons.
	www.touchstonemag.com /docs/issues/15.3docs/15-3pg25.html (4500 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume II: Ante-Nicene Christianity. A.D. 100-325.
		The marriage relation implies duties and privileges, and it is a strange perversion of truth if some writers under the influence of dogmatic prejudice have turned the apostolic marriages, and that between Joseph and Mary into empty forms.
		The first step in the direction of clerical celibacy was the prohibition of second marriage to the clergy, on the ground that Paul’s direction concerning "the husband of one wife" is a restriction rather than a command.
		Clerical marriages are probably the most happy as a rule, and have given birth to a larger number of useful and distinguished men and women than those of any other class of society.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc2.v.xi.v.html?bcb=0 (3445 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - View Single Post - Did Protestants help design the Novus Ordo Mass?
		In 962, during the pontificate of John XII, marriage was common among the clergy (all priests of the diocese of Verona, for instance, were married.
		In Milan a married priest was held in higher esteem because an unmarried one was presumed to have a mistress.
		The envoys whom Sergius sent to Constantinople, disregarding the greater strictness of eastern canon law and its antipathy to tetragamy, gave a verdict approving Leo's 4th marriage, with the result that Nicholas was deposed and exiled and the eastern church entered on a period of confusion and controversy.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showpost.php?p=12375&postcount=89 (1804 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Chairman, H.R. 3396, the Defense of Marriage Act, presently before the House is unnecessary, untimely, purports to solve a problem that does not exist, professes to defend an institution--marriage --that is not under attack in the manner suggested by the legislation, and violates the full faith and credit clause of the Constitution.
		Marriage is the foundation of our society; families are built on it and values are passed on through it.
		Homosexual marriages are not necessary; gays can legally achieve the same legal ends as marriage through draft wills, medical powers of attorney, and contractual agreements in the event that the relationship should end.
	www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs/user/scotts/bulgarians/doma/debate_jul12.txt (13042 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Spiritual marriage thus appears paradoxically central and peripheral to medieval social and religious life, usually orthodox in its support of clerical authority but frequently heretical, rigidly conservative and yet potentially subversive, especially in so far as the practice arose spontaneously among the laity, often upon female initiative.
		Further complicating discussion of marriage, and especially of women's autonomy within marriage, Elliott argues, is the movement of the church from periphery to center, and a concomitant change in its earlier egalitarian rhetoric.
		Indirectly such accounts imply the foundation of a valid and indissoluble marriage in consensus not coitus, and thus argue a change in the marital law of the germanic west, in its indigenous traditions af divorce and repudiation of impolitic or inconvenient wives.
	www.infomotions.com /serials/bmmr/bmmr-9410-weston-spiritual.txt (1618 words)

	Lateran Councils
		Clerics in holy orders, who in open concubinage keep their mistresses in their houses, should either cast them out and live continently or be deprived of ecclesiastical office and benefice.
		Priests or clerics who receive the charge of a church from the hands of lay persons {11 }, without the authority of their own bishop, are to be deprived of communion, and if they persist, they are to be deposed from the ecclesiastical ministry and order.
		Clerics should not, of course, give the sacraments of the church to such pestilent people nor give them a christian burial nor accept alms or offerings from them; if they do, let them be deprived of their office and not restored to it without a special indult of the apostolic see.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txs/lateran.htm (16494 words)

	The ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church
		The 10th century saw marriage as a positive contribution to the work and life style of the priest, particularly the clergy who lived and served among the people (known now as diocesan).
		The marriage of nobles and judges were celebrated publicly so as to give credence to offspring for the purpose of succession and heritage; ordinary folk would marry in a private family setting without fanfare.
		The cleric of the day was identified by his tonsure (clerical haircut), unemployable outside of the fast closing employment market feudal system); to survive he had to remain within the church, and celibacy.
	www.womenpriests.org /body/wives.asp (835 words)

	Standing Up For Religious Freedom - Christianity.ca
		Over 75 percent of marriages are solemnized by clergy in Canada and all of these are recognized civilly.
		The Supreme Court must stand up for clerical freedom of religion—either by up-holding Ottawa's right to protect it through federal legislation, or by acceding to Quebec's demand that provinces be able to provide such freedoms through their own laws.
		She is acting as an intervener opposed to the redefinition of marriage in the Supreme Court of Canada marriage reference.
	www.christianity.ca /news/commentary/2004/10.002.html (799 words)

	Hosius - LoveToKnow 1911
		Elected to the see of Cordova before the end of the 3rd century, he narrowly escaped martyrdom in the persecution of Maximian (303-305).
		In 305 or 306 he attended the council of Illiberis or Elvira (his name appearing second in the list of those present), and upheld its severe canons concerning such points of discipline as the treatment of the lapsed and clerical marriages.
		In 313 he appears at the court of Constantine, being expressly mentioned by name in a constitution directed by the emperor to Caecilianus of Carthage in that year.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Hosius (372 words)

	titusonenine » Blog Archive » Prior Marriage Information Dropped from Clerical Directory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		As the previous clerical directory was silent as to the names of former spouses and the children of prior marriages, the arguement that to drop these references, is simply specious.
		I assume the former marriages and births were all reported in newspapers and the former spouse and children of that marriage weren’t hidden from the public in a basement.
		After 12 years of marriage, and counseling, I divorced a woman who thought she was single every time the Army deployed me to a conflict somewhere.
	titusonenine.classicalanglican.net /?p=13346 (1717 words)

	Church Registers in Norway
		Thus, some vicars have kept their records neatly chronological, while others have separated the different clerical events into baptisms, marriages, burials etc. Since the church register was, for quite some time, the sole official protocol for the clergy, the vicars could sometimes include notes on estate and economic affairs, or other official business.
		Dissenters should be registered on the last pages with their births, deaths, and marriages; as well as additional notes on which community they belonged to, and who had given the information.
		If a clerical action involved a person not originating from the local parish, it should still be registered with a serial number and a report should be sent to the local parish he/she originated from, where it would be fully recorded.
	digitalarkivet.uib.no /churchregister.htm (1614 words)

	History of the Christian Church, Volume V: The Middle Ages. A.D. 1049-1294.
		It deposed the priests who had bought their dignity or benefices, prohibited all future sacerdotal marriage, required married priests to dismiss their wives or cease to read mass, and commanded the laity not to attend their services.
		But clerical marriages continued, the nuptials were made public, and male children succeeded to benefices by a recognized right of primogeniture.
		The acts of councils abound in complaints of clerical immorality and the vices of unchastity and drunkenness.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/hcc5.ii.iv.iv.html?bcb=0 (1530 words)

	Why Not Married Priests? The Case for Clerical Celibacy
		And yet, as he points out in his famous talks on the theology of the body, marriage "is only a tentative solution to the problem of a union of persons through love." The final solution lies only in heaven, where, as Christ explained to the Sadducees, there is no marriage.
		Those who live celibately are, in effect, "skipping" the sacrament in anticipation of the ultimate reality, the "Marriage of the Lamb." They are an "eschatological sign" for the rest of us; their total gift of self, which includes their sexuality, to God anticipates the eternal union for which we were all created.
		Obviously, not all married clergymen are like this, but clerical marriages have their special difficulties, and, unlike 130 years ago, when Butler wrote his novel, there is now the possibility of divorce.
	catholiceducation.org /articles/facts/fm0054.html (3206 words)

	OSCN Found Document:Endorsement and Return of Marriage License
		The witnesses to the ceremony shall endorse the marriage certificate, attesting to their presence at the ceremony, with their names and post office addresses.
		The persons who have been married in the ceremony shall endorse the marriage certificate with the names by which they are to be known from the time of the marriage, as evidenced on the marriage license.
		The marriage license, along with the completed marriage certificate shall be transmitted without delay to the judge or the court clerk who issued the license and certificate.
	www.oscn.net /applications/oscn/deliverdocument.asp?citeID=71794 (222 words)

	SISTER FIDELMA MYSTERIES - FAQS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It seems that some readers just cannot accept that there were clerical marriages among the religious in ancient times nor that there were `mixed communities' in many early religious houses.
		In AD 567 the 2nd Council at Tours decided to recommend that any cleric found in bed with their wives should be forbidden to perform church rituals and reduced to a lay state.
		The short answer to those who attempt to deny that there was clerical marriage in Ireland and deny the existence of many mixed communities, raising their children in the service of the New Faith, is that they can only put forward their argument by distorting or ignoring the evidence.
	www.sisterfidelma.com /FAQS.htm (14149 words)

	Rules and Regulations Governing the Implementation of Republic Act No. 9048 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In case the C/MCR, CG or D/CR approves the petition, he shall render his decision in a prescribed form in triplicate copies, indicating therein the entry sought to be corrected or the first name sought to be changed in the civil register, and the corresponding correction or change made.
		The petition for correction of clerical or typographical error was not posted, or the petition for change of first name was not published as required under Rule 9.
		When the petitioner files petition for correction of clerical or typographical error, simultaneously with a petition for change of first name, and the same document is involved, the petitioner shall pay only the amount corresponding to the fee for the petition for change of first name.
	www.census.gov.ph /data/civilreg/irr_ra9048.html (3503 words)

	Irish Democrat : Anonn Is Anall (Peter Berresford Ellis) : Celibacy in the Catholic Church
		Clerics marrying remained an unchanging factor of religious life through the sixth century.
		In AD 567, at the second Council at Tours, it was decided to recommend that any cleric found in bed with their wives should be forbidden to perform church rituals and reduced to a lay state.
		Those who attempt to deny that there was clerical marriage in Ireland and deny the existence of many mixed communities can only put forward their argument by distorting or ignoring the evidence.
	www.irishdemocrat.co.uk /anonn-is-anall/celibacy-in-the-church (3855 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Second-wave feminism was, for clerical wives, a double-edged sword: No longer were women accorded honor and respect simply because they were married to a minister.
		Evaluating the history of clerical wives is complex for the same reasons that all 20th-century American women's history is complex: We want to honor the work of our foremothers, and yet we want to critique the structures in which they did that very work, structures they usually accepted without batting an eye.
		The problem with a facile feminist critique of the role of clergy wife is that it misses the real beauty of the collaboration sometimes found in clerical marriages.
	opinionjournal.com /taste/?id=110008657 (751 words)

	Arabella And Co~~Spring Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Marriages: One to actress Eloise Taylor that endured until his death.
		Marriages: One to playwright Charles MacArthur that lasted 28 years until his death.
		Marriages: One to Frederick Brisson in 1941 that lasted until her death.
	www.arabella-and-co.com /27/gallery.htm (2076 words)

	Catholic Community Forum Discussion Groups - Did Protestants help design the Novus Ordo Mass?
		Is a cleric in this sense, a priest?
		I appologize to others who are not interested in the subject of marriage and it probably should be posted elsewhere, but Sean wishes to have things clarified and so here is more history of the Church and celibacy.
		The latter canon absolutely forbids a priest to contract a new marriage under the pain of deposition; the former forbids even a deacon to contract marriage, if at the moment of his ordination he made no reservation as to celibacy.
	www.catholic-forum.com /forums/showthread.php?p=12257 (6275 words)

	§43-8. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The witnesses to the ceremony shall endorse the license authorizing the marriage with their names and post office addresses.
		Provided that all marriages solemnized among the society called Friends, or Quakers, the spiritual assembly of the Baha'Is, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, in the form heretofore practiced and in use in their meetings shall be good and valid.
		One person chosen by such society, church or assembly shall be responsible for completing the certification of marriage pursuant to this title in the same manner as a minister or other person authorized to perform marriages.
	oklegal.onenet.net /oklegal-cgi/get_statute?99/Title.43/43-8.html (135 words)

	Winchcombe
		The marriages, as published by Phillimore, were originally transcribed by the late Mr T C Webb at the expense of the late Emma Dent of Sudeley Castle
		Please be imaginative when searching for 16th and early 17th marriages - some names were preceded by 'a' or 'ap', especially if of Welsh origin and indeed I would suggest you take a look at the letter 'U' for Unknown.
		I have not checked these against the originals, and therefore it is doubly important that, should you find an entry of interest, you must check the original Parish Registers, which are held at Gloucestershire Record Office.
	pages.britishlibrary.net /winchcombe/phillmar.html (338 words)

	[No title]
		I used both the clerical survey records (similar to census records) and the parish registers which include the birth/christenings, marriages, and deaths/burials.
		The clerical survey records also showed that the Sor name was used by Petter Pehrsson, father of the Anders born 1 May 1805, and at first I thought that perhaps this was the correct family.
		Many researchers use mainly the clerical survey records, but much of the information in the clerical survey records is incomplete, if not completely inaccurate.
	www.mowerfamily.org /newsarch/1998/0798.html (1920 words)

	[No title]
		After a man slept with his wife, he may not enter a church until he had purged himself by penance and washing, for his will remains evil.
		Declared that a marriage between Christians can be dissolved if one of the parties chooses to become a heretic.
		Pius dissolved the marriage on Nov. 6, 1924.
	members.lycos.co.uk /jloughnan/bbosj2.htm (1171 words)

	Touchstone Archives: Catholic Scandals
		The Catholic Church has been the object of much unwanted attention, some of which it has brought upon itself.
		By not making this clear, the media has given the impression that the Catholic Church attracts sick priests who like little children, as opposed to homosexuals who like teenage boys (not a good thing, but not as disgusting as pedophilia).
		And clerical marriage brings its own problems, too little acknowledged in the discussion of celibacy.
	www.touchstonemag.com /archives/article.php?id=15-03-025-f (4556 words)

	Drell’s Descants » It Is All My Fault For Breaking The Story On Canon Beisner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		They just call it annulment, and any marriage can be found to have had some issue which made it “invalid.” The Orthodox approach, according to what I read, allows second marriages, but only after a period of repentance and separation from communion.
		Then the second marriage is solemnized in a ceremony which makes it clear that this is a case of pastoral generosity to a repentant sinner, not like a first marriage.
		“As the previous clerical directory was silent as to the names of former spouses and the children of prior marriages, the arguement to drop these references for privacy reasons, is simply specious.
	descant.classicalanglican.net /?p=1798 (921 words)

	Crisis Magazine
		If you fully understand the vocations to marriage and to the priesthood—the total availability and self-emptying that each demands—you would not choose to do both.
		The early Church Fathers—Tertullian, Augustine, Ambrose, Jerome, and Hilary—wrote in favor of clerical celibacy, and at the end of the Dark Ages, great reforming popes like Leo IX and Gregory VII insisted that henceforth the priesthood would be celibate.
		His children are the most defenseless things he can reach, and it is on them that nine cases out of ten that he will relieve his mind.
	www.crisismagazine.com /january2006/feature1.htm (2947 words)

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