An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church
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Meuev. Eccles. Dist. Vn. 2 Gregor. VII. Regist. Lib. I. Eplst. 30. 3 Ut secundum instituta antiquo- rum canonuni presbyteri uxores non habeant, habentes aut dimittant aut deponantur ; nee quisquam ornnino ad sacerdotium admittatur qui non in HIS FIRST EFFORTS. 289 of this more severe than what had been decreed in innumer able previous councils indeed, it was by no means as threat ening as many decretals of recent date; but Gregory was resolved that it should not remain, like them, a mere protes...t, and he took immediate measures to have it enforced wherever the authority of Eome extended. The controversy as respects Italy has already been so fully described that to dilate upon it further would be superfluous. Even though Alexander II. In his later years had shrunk some what from the contest, yet from Naples to the Tyrol the ques tion was thoroughly understood, and its results depended more upon political revolutions than on ecclesiastical authority. Beyond the Alps, however, the efforts of preceding popes had thus far proved wholly nugatory, and on this field Gregory now bent all his energies.
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