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Originally Posted by Savorgnan
In fact, celibacy is a Roman military custom. Marriage was forbidden to the legionnaires of the professional imperial army. When the Church became rthe Roman Church, in 313, this typical latin custom of celibacy passed on to Christianism.
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There are some explanations which bring the custom of the celibacy in the Catholic into connexion with some economic factors. The priests had been originally - according to this explanation - barred from marrying lest the ecclesiastical property be dispersed.
Celibacy of the clergy is at any rate
not a dogma of the Church.