17 DECEMBER 1937, Page 6

* * * * How far does ecclesiastical celibacy differ

from celibacy as commonly understood ? I ask because the signatories of a memorial addressed this week to the Archbishops of Canterbury and York assert roundly that " Christianity was spread from the Apostles' time not by married, but by celibate, missionaries, .who had left father, mother, wife and children."

Whose wife and children ?

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