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... Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord.
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from "Salt of the Earth: Christianity and the Catholic Church at the end of the Millennium: An interview with Peter Seewald," by Ratzinger, San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997.

 

Benedict XVI (Pope)

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