POPE PAUL VI says that the church law forbidding priests to marry is right. He called it a “brilliant jewel.” Earlier this year he said: “It is happy, it is lovely, it is Catholic. We must conserve and defend it.”

It was not until 1139 C.E. that the Catholic church imposed the celibacy law. Before that, many popes themselves were married. In fact, the recent Pope John XXIII said: “Ecclesiastical celibacy is not a dogma. The Scriptures do not impose it. It is even easy to effect a change. I take up a pen, I sign a decree and, the next day, priests who wish to may get married.”