re: #203 Decatur Deb

Wife’s RC parish just got a married priest—he swam the Tiber, towing his wife. It took a couple years for the Vatican to rule that his episcopal succession was sound.

(We had a lot of married priests in communion with Rome in the 50s, then the Greek Catholics changed their rules. RC unmarried clergy is a management decision, not a theological requirement.)

Very much one. Between 1000 & 1200 they began losing too much inheritance and dealing with conflicting loyalties (hmm… support some old man in Rome or my son?) and they began serious cracking down on it. The theology has always been for cover.