1123 CE: POPE CALIXTUS II: FIRST LATERAN COUNCIL / CELIBACY DECREE

–decrees that clerical marriages are invalid. And forbids clergy to have concubines.

Many believe that the Vatican policy of clerical celibacy has contributed to ongoing Catholic clerical sexual abuses over the centuries subsequent. The Vatican challenges this argument.

It should be noted that sexually abused young Catholic males [and the count over the millennia is not small], often filled with amorphous rage looking for a target, and simultaneously indoctrinated with focused hatred by the same Church, are not necessarily without consequence to society – and to isolated Jews in particular…..over the centuries subsequent to Calixtus.