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If the family is the repository of morality, why must it be that Catholic priests are expressly forbidden from finding out what its joys and pains might be?

More ancient Christian churches, as well as more recent ones, do not impose the forbidding condition of celibacy. But once it is imposed, it seems idle to wonder why the joke about the sex-crazed priest is one of the best-known jokes in human history.

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