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Clerical celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the priesthood in the Latin Church, and similarly to the diaconate. In other sui iuris (autonomous) particular churches, the discipline applies only to the episcopate. According to Jason Berry of The New York Times, "The requirement of celibacy is not dogma; it is an ecclesiastical law that was adopted in the Middle Ages because Rome was worried that clerics' children would inherit church property and create dynasties." For several hundred years after the imposition of celibacy on secular (non-monastic/religious) clergy the sale of church offices
continued. The first male issue of non-married concubines of celibate clergy became set to continue the dynasty. To curtail this clerical abuse, the Latin Church imposed a ban on the ordination of children born to unmarried parents. This policy ended almost 800 years later in the 20th century.
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