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Keeping celibacy

Christian Century, Nov 15, 2005

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KEEPING CELIBACY: Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives to celebrate a mass for the canonization of five new saints at St. Peter's Square in the Vatican October 23. The pontiff reaffirmed the Roman Catholic rule of priestly celibacy, rejecting suggestions that the way to confront the church's shortage of priests would be to allow them to marry.

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