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// it is right for one set of ministers to be celibate^ it must be wrong for others not to be celibate.

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You might just as well say that, if it is right for me to obey one set of laws in America, it is wrong for another man to follow a totally different custom in China! And the Catholic Church differs much more from other religions than America differs from China.

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