AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
ALAN HOWE HERALD SUN NOVEMBER 25, 2013
THE Catholic Church has long had problems with sex and marriage. Its popes still preach that sex outside marriage is a sin, despite so many unmarried priests regularly having sex – much of it criminal.
For centuries priests married freely, but the church came to view women with suspicion – clearly it still does – and it slowly changed its mind.
Today priests must not marry. But St Peter had a missus at the dawn of Christianity and it seems he coped, despite the distractions.
We know he was married because the Bible records Jesus curing Saint Peter’s mother-in-law of a fever. It’s not recorded if the first Pope thought that a good thing or not.
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