But the general celibacy of the clergy fortunately prevented the hereditary transmission of bishopric and abbey.
Even after celibacy was proclaimed as a law of the Church, in 1074, it encountered the most violent opposition, and the law was not universally obeyed by the priests until two or three centuries later.
The celibacy of the priesthood was partially enforced by this time, and the Roman Church thereby gained a new power.
He relied mainly upon two measures to accomplish this change,--the suppression of simony and the celibacy of the priesthood.
What I pity most in the man condemned to celibacy is not only the privation of the sweetest joys of the heart, but that a thousand objects of the natural and moral world are, and ever will be, a dead letter to him.
A rejoinder to this appeared from the pen of a monk of the monastery of Studium, Nicetas Pectoratus, in which the enforced celibacy of the Western clergy, on which Photius had before animadverted, was severely criticised.
The celibacy of the secular clergy, the use of unleavened bread for the sacrifice, fasting on Saturdays, the shaving of beards, the omission of the Alleluia in Lent, were all brought forward as causes of offence.
The two important ones deal with the doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit, and the enforced celibacy of the clergy.
And one who takes the vow of celibacy does not break it by sinning against the Sixth Commandment; he is true to it until he weds.
All celibates are not chaste; celibacy is not necessarily chastity, by a large majority.
And, mind you, the effects of profligate celibacy are farther-reaching than many of us would suppose at first blush.
Some men should marry, others may not; but the state of celibacy is for the few, and not for the many, these few depending solely on an abundant grace of God.
Vows of celibacy were not meant to sunder loving hearts.
I have long had my doubts concerning these vows of perpetual celibacy for women.
It is not always a duty to marry, but it is always a duty not to forgive one's self anything, never to be happy at the expense of honor, and not to avoid celibacy by infamy.
The economic and political destiny of the Church may be said to have been determined in the eleventh century, when, after a desperate struggle, begun by Pope Hildebrandt, celibacy was forced on the secular clergy.
Roman monk =Jovinian= opposed on substantial doctrinal grounds the prevailing notions about the merit of works and external observances, especially monasticism, asceticism, celibacy and fasting.
Marriage was honoured and regarded as holy, though celibacy was admitted to be helpful in freeing the soul from the thraldom of fleshly lusts.
Manichæan abuse of marriage, insisted on the celibacy of all bishops, presbyters and deacons, and Leo the Great included even subdeacons under this obligation.
The Roman custom of enforcing celibacy on presbyters and bishops is condemned as unjustifiable and inhuman (§ 45, 2).
The law of celibacy strictly enforced by Gregory VII.
Economy, too, flourished in spite of the heavy losses it sustained, so that now the common property of the populace, which through celibacy had been reduced to about eighty persons, amounts to eight million dollars.
Gregory renewed the old law of celibacy and rendered it more strict, deposed all married priests or those who got office through simony, and pronounced their priestly acts invalid.
This led to the adoption of monastic discipline among the clergy; and the law of celibacy which had been rejected at the council of Nice, was then prescribed by Siricius, bishop of Rome.
An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacyin the Christian Church.
The second condition, that celibacy does not interfere with purity of morals--the relations between the sexes being, in fact, only proper and legitimate in marriage.
For there are continually before our own eyes examples of the fruits which impure celibacy brings forth, and there are extant in books, record of most horrible crimes, of which it has been the cause.
From the above inhuman abuse and contempt of marriage have arisen those numerous reproaches of the female sex, which celibacy has greatly augmented.
Are not then such men as these, I ask you, worthy of living to see marriage despised and unclean celibacy introduced, and themselves, subjected to its crimes and punishments, which exceed even those of Sodom?
O, what triumphs would the Papists celebrate could they but prove by the Word of God their celibacy to be a divine institution, as we can abundantly prove marriage to be.
It was enacted in the parliament of 1539: a vast number of persons were soon after imprisoned for transgressing it; and Cranmer himself was compelled, by the clause which ordained the celibacy of the clergy, to send away his wife.
The enforcement of celibacy upon the clergy was an important feature in the plan of the Hildebrandine reformers of the eleventh century.
The solution was as follows: The secular cleric was not bound by any Divine ordinance to celibacy, and did not, like the monks, take any vow of celibacy on admission to Orders.
After a short time bishops and great dignitaries ceased to be married men, and sought to enforce the canons on celibacy which they helped to make.
The attempt to introduce celibacy among the secular clergy had been begun in the latter part of the Saxon period.
The effect of this, celibacy being no longer the rule, was to make all the Fellows look forward to the benefices, of a number of which each College was the patron, and upon which they could marry.
His celibacy was by no means owing to a deliberate choice of a single life.
Perhaps it is not unnecessary to recall the fact that Gregory VII was the first of the popes to impose celibacy on the clergy.
The present work, if it teach anything at all, teaches that Celibacyis a crime, and the Mother of crime, just as a venomous plant is a producer of poison.
The celibacy of priests dates only from the year 1010: Christ never speaks about it.
On his side Royas was inclined to yield a good deal in regard to clerical celibacy and the authority of secular princes in ecclesiastical affairs.
For him, as indeed for most of the other reformers, clerical celibacy was the great stumbling block.
But yet voluntary celibacy seems so much more noble and glorious, and so much more beneficial in the way of example, that I am loth to relinquish the idea of it.
Bacon, Lord, on the celibacy of men of genius Inaccuracies in his Apophthegms Baillie, Joanna, the only woman capable of writing tragedy Baillie, Dr.
Charles himself liked fine cloaths, found talking pleasant, enjoyed the organization of splendid entertainments, yet he could not condemn himself to eternal celibacy and the preservation of his figure.
