>>617017
Many of the Apostles were married men. Paul references this in his Epistles.
The idea that Priests should be unmarried is heretical.
The requirement for modern Bishops in both the Roman and the Eastern Churches is not founded in any ancient revelation but it a tradition of men.
We might say that there are good reasons for Bishops, who will tend to be older, will not have access to individual parishioners on a regular basis, and who have far more logistical and travel responsibilities, to be a position mostly filled by widowers or those who have put their wives away to nunneries or to have been celibate, makes some sense, but to make it a requirement IMO is problematic for the same reason that unmarried priests are.
There are on the other hand very good reasons for stating that unmarried priests from the times of Christendom up until recently should STAY celibate they'd be poaching their own flock, but in modern times with the internet etc. not so much.
>>616987
The various Ottoman Emperors held much more power. But CNN wouldn't get any brownie virtue signalling cuck points by doing a documentary on them.