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Catholic History
While the modern Catholic Church requires clerical celibacy, historical practice differed. In the Church’s first centuries, married men commonly became bishops and popes, and...
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No pope in the historical record approved by the Catholic Church was married while serving as pope. The office of pope is reserved for men in Holy Orders, and canon law requires...
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