PriestTheyCalledHim
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Lol yeah the Borgias and other popes, and clergy who actually did marry and have children for Centuries, who inherited everything from their married Roman catholic clergy fathers and continued the cycle when marriage of Roman Catholic clergy was still permitted proves how your opinion is not factually or historically accurate. There were popes or clergy who were the sons of previous popes or clergy, and they inherited wealth and land the Roman Catholic church owned. Have you ever traveled to Rome or the Vatican? The Roman Catholic church did not just suddenly get massive quantities of land and wealth overnight or suddenly by random.No, it's because if one really fulfills their vocation as a priest they would have no time and energy for their wives and children. Rhetoric like what you quoted may give you a feeling of being on a higher moral ground, but is simply not true with regards to why they are not allowed to marry.
It has nothing to do with any sort of "moral higher ground" as nobody is better than anyone else, but it is accurate factual history of the Roman Catholic church. Stop drinking the kool aid of Roman Catholic nonsense propaganda and revisionist history.
If you want to be Roman Catholic or support that still powerful and corrupt church that is your choice, but you should know the reality and history about it.

List of sexually active popes - Wikipedia
Popes were also allowed to and did take complete control of small, moderate, and large kingdoms of the holy Roman Empire. Pius IX was not only pope, but until 1870 also the last Sovereign ruler of the Papal States. As a ruler he was occasionally referred to as "king".
Papal deposing power - Wikipedia
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