[Gutenberg 56084] • Catharine de Bora · Social and Domestic Scenes in the Home of Luther

Excerpt from Catharine De Bora, or Social and Domestic Scenes in the Home of Luther

The celibacy of the-clergy was one of the strongest pillars on which the proud edifice of Romish power rested. It was a stupendous partition-wall which separated the clergy from all other interests, and thus consolidated the wide-spread authority of the Pope. It cut off the secular clergy, as well as the monks, from all domestic ties. They forgot father, mother.

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