The Poet as Scientist: What if the Roman Catholic Church had never required priests to be celibate?

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The Geek's Raven
[An excerpt, with thanks to Marcus Bales]

Once upon a midnight dreary,
fingers cramped and vision bleary,
System manuals piled high and wasted paper on the floor,
Longing for the warmth of bedsheets,
Still I sat there, doing spreadsheets:
Having reached the bottom line,
I took a floppy from the drawer.
Typing with a steady hand, I then invoked the SAVE command
But got instead a reprimand: it read "Abort, Retry, Ignore".

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Tuesday, March 14, 2023

What if the Roman Catholic Church had never required priests to be celibate?

Since the twelfth century at least, the Roman Catholic Church has, at least officially, required all its priests to be celibate. What if it hadn't? How would priests having families have affected the power of the Vatican -- who's a married priest going to be more concerned about, the Pope, or his wife and children? And how would a diminished Vatican authority have affected European and world history? Thoughts?

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