Just to add additional support to your comment "...compulsory
celibate priesthood was not handed down from Jesus and the
apostles..." is the fact that at least seven popes were married:

1. St. Peter

2. St. Felix III (2 children)

3. St. Hormidas (1 son)

4. St. Silverus

5. Hadrian II (1 daughter)

6. Clement IV (2 daughters)

7. Innocent III 1484-1492 Several Children

Also, there were several popes who were the sons of other popes or
other clergy:
1. St. Damascus I (son of St. Lorenzo, priest)
2. St. Innocent I (son of Anastasius I, pope)
3. Boniface (son of a priest)
4. St. Felix (son of a priest)
5. Anastasius II (son of a priest)
6. St. Agapitus I (son of Gordiaous, priest)
7. St. Silverus (son of St. Homidas, pope)
8. Deusdedit (son of a priest)
9. Boniface VI (son of Hadrian, bishop)
10.John XI (son of Sergius III, pope)
11.John XV (son of Leo, priest)

The myth being circulated around the Roman Catholic Church is that
celibacy has been the norm since the Second Lateran Council in 1139;
however, priests and even popes still continued to marry and have
children for several hundred years after that date. The belief is
that the burgeoning institution was afraid of probate court and that
these Cardinals, Bishops, Priests, and Deacons' property may revert
to their widows or children and NOT the church. Let us not forget the
many very wealthy nobility who became clerics or, whose wealthy
family was able to acquire a cardinalate for their son through
simony, I suspect

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