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Catholic Church Inconsistency on Clerical Marriage

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · May 27, 1886

FromThe Signs of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 20

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Catholic Church Inconsistency on Clerical Marriage

THE Catholic Church claims that marriage is a sacrament of the church, and then, with characteristic inconsistency, prohibits marriage to the clergy and to every one whom it ungrammatically terms "a religious." That is, common people may freely share in all the sacraments of the church, but the leaders of the church must be debarred from some of them. Truly that system of irreligion was well termed by the apostle "the mystery of iniquity."