"Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command."

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To live without feeling or exciting sympathy, to be fortunate without adding to the felicity of others, or afflicted without tasting the balm of pity, is a state more gloomy than solitude; it is not retreat, but exclusion from mankind. Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.

— Samuel Johnson