The attacks upon the marriages of diocesan priests by S Gregory I, and several hundred years later, S Gregory VII and other monastic popes (not to mention S Peter Damian) amounted to a persecution of the secular clergy by monks. This was a grave error. Even saints can make mistakes, and it doesn't follow that because S Gregory VII was right to assert wrt the theory of "The Two Swords", the superiority of the spiritual "sword" over the temporal one (represented by The Holy Roman Emperor), that he was right in his largely unsuccessful attempt to suppress clerical marriage. Also, Cardinal Sarah's position seems to rely on the (discredited) book by the late Cardinal Alfons Stickler, which seems to rely on the (discredited) view of the French theologian Laurent Touze (harking back to the ideas of the French School) that the priesthood ONTOLOGICALLY demands celibacy. Here is an article by Rev Dr Anthony Dragani, a married Eastern-rite deacon, that deals with the Stickler book: https://east2west.org/articles/mandatory..._celibacy/
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