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description: Excerpt from Why Should Priests Wed?Clerical celibacy and confession have ever been the especial objects of Protestant attacks. But the same amount of talent and the like honesty of purpose have not been exercised in making the attacks as in meeting them. The brightest and keenest intellects of Christen dom have cultivated the science of moral theology, bringing to the task years and years of previous study of Holy Scripture, canon law, dogmatic theology, and the whole circle of human knowledge. Thousands and thousands of such commentaries have already appeared, and he would be rash indeed who would insolently style all this great labor ridiculous study. As to Confession, if the laws of the Church and the exhortations of theologians be observed, nothing can be conceived more conducive to spiritual progress than that Sacrament.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
title: Why Priests Should Wed
publisher: Rand Avery