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Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” " A terrible picture of the decay both of clerical morality and of all sense of anything like vocation is drawn in the writings of St. Peter Damian, particularly in his Liber Gomorrhianus.

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Most rural priests were married and many urban clergy and bishops had wives and children .” Then in the 12th century the Western Church declared that Holy Orders were not merely a prohibitive but a diriment canonical impediment to marriage, making a marriage by priests invalid and not merely forbidden.

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