An Outline of the History of Clerical Celibacy in Western Europe to the Council
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Ep. 50. Epistolaj Merowingici et Karolini Aevi (M. G. H. ), 1, 300. • Bonifacii Ep. Ep. 26. Lb. 277. • Bonifacii Ep. Ep. 91. Lb. 377. 19 In his efforts to suppress clerical marriage he showed far less vigor and confined himself to the prohibition, without penalties, that priests should not dwell with women. Wives are not specified, but seem to be included in the prohibition. ^ Nor was the capitulary of Pippin for the discipline of the Neustrian clergy severe. He simply decreed, without penalty ...for dis- obedience, that no priest should dwell with a woman unless it be his mother, sister, or niece. ^ IMam?^ of the clergy resisted these measures, and seeing in Boniface the in. Stigator of the hated legislation, attempted to drive him from Austrasia by persecution, and resisted with violence the execution of the law.^ A capitulary of Louis the Pious fixing the punishment of priests guilty of rape and the enactment b}'^ several councils of canons forbidding the clergy to dwell with their mothers or sisters shows of what crimes they were sus])cctcd.^ The tenth centurj^ saw no change in the matter of clerical ' Karlmanni Principis Capit.
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