One John Bergsma, here, professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville, OH, omitting from his discussion this:
Do we not have the right to be accompanied by a wife, as the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
-- I Corinthians 9:5;
And this:
CANON 21 of the First Council of the Lateran, Rome, A.D. 1122-1123, which is so emphatic against clerical marriage because it was still so common:
We absolutely forbid priests, deacons, subdeacons, and monks to have concubines or to contract marriage. We decree in accordance with the definitions of the sacred canons, that marriages already contracted by such persons must be dissolved, and that the persons be condemned to do penance.
