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• Compendio de doctrinas ortodoxas sobre la cuestion del matrimonio o celibato de los clérigos mayores (Impr. del Crepúsculo, 1844), by Manuel José Mosquera (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vices of convents and monasteries, priests and nuns (Press of the Jeffersonian Pub. Co., 1916), by Thomas E. Watson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of the celibacy of the clergy : wherein its rise and progress are historically considered (Printed by H. Clark, for J. Adamson, 1688), by Henry Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traicté du célibat des prestres. Opuscule inédit. Introduction et notes par Robert Luzarche. Frontispice... (Paris, 1866), by Urbain Grandier (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hoy truena como harpa vieja el Pensador Mexicano : diálogo entre un cura y su campanero contra el vigésimo del payo y el sacristán, y la intrusa doña Rosita : su autor la Pretendiente de antaño. (A. Valdes, 1824) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two discourses concerning the adoration of our B. Saviour in the H. Eucharist ... (Oxford : [publisher not identified], 1687., 1687), by R. H. and Puritan Collection of English and American Literature (Princeton Theological Seminary) (page images at HathiTrust)
• El celibato forzoso y el matrimonio de los eclesiasticos (Cuzco, Perú : H.G. Rozas, 1928., 1928), by Juan Alberto Cavagneri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• An Historical Sketch of Sacerdotal Celibacy in the Christian Church, by Henry Charles Lea (Gutenberg ebook)
• Priests, Women, and Families, by Jules Michelet (Gutenberg ebook)

• Inconvenientes del celibato eclesiastico (s.n.], 1820) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A declaration made by the Archbishop of Collen, vpon the deede of his mariage, sent to the states of his archbishoprike VVith the letter of Pope Gregorie the. 13 against the celebration of the same mariage, and the Bishops aunswer therevnto. According to the coppie imprinted at Collen. 1583. (London : Printed by Iohn VVoolfe, 1583), by Truchsess von Waldburg Gebhard, Thomas Deloney, and Pope Gregory XIII (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The proclamation and edict of the archbyshop, and prince elector of Culleyn. Declarynge his occasion and earnest intention, to bring in the free exercise of the preaching of the Gospel, and peace and lybertie to true Christian religion Proclaymed at Bon, in the yeare of our Lorde, 1583. Imprinted at Antwerp, in Tannets streete, at the signe of the Gylden Bible, by Paule Braeckvelt, 1583. With the consent and priuiledge of the lordes of of the cittie of Antwerp. (Imprinted at London : By Richard Iones and I. S[tell?], the .18. of March. 1583), by Truchsess von Waldburg Gebhard (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Eurico, o presbytero (in Portuguese), by Alexandre Herculano (Gutenberg ebook)

• Sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian Church (Houghton Mifflin, 1884), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Why Priests Should Wed (censored edition; Boston: Rand Avery Company, c1888), by Justin D. Fulton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Célibat a Rome (Plon-Nourrit et cie, 1902), by Ernest Cartier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great unmarried. (T. W. Laurie, ltd., 1916), by Walter M. Gallichan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The intelligent man's guide to marriage and celibacy (Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1929), by Juanita Tanner (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical sketch of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. (J.B. Lippincott, 1867), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. (Macmillan, 1907), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ueber das colibatgesetz des rʼomisch katholischen klerus (H.L. Brʼonner, 1832), by Friedrich Wilhelm Carové, P., and C.A.P. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les prētres à marier. (E. Dentu, 1861), by J.-M. Cayla (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les inconvéniens du célibat des prētres prouvés par des recherches historiques. ([Lejay], 1790), by Jacques Gaudin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres sur le célibat ecclésiastique à M. le lieutenant-général, comte d'Hautpoul, gouverneur-général de l'Algérie. (Librairie universelle de Bastide, 1851), by Louis Antoine Augustin Pavy and Alphonse Henri Hautpoul (page images at HathiTrust)
• An outline of the history of clerical celibacy in western Europe to the Council of Trent. (Syracuse, N.Y., 1905), by Earl E. Sperry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storia polemica del celibato sacro da contrapporsi ad alcune detestabili opere uscite a questi tempi (G. Zempel, 1774), by Francescantonio Zaccaria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aṛ Vehapʻaṛ Hayrapetn Amenayn Hayotsʻ (880-04 Erusaghēm : I tparani S. Ḥakobeantsʻ, 1924., 1924), by Eghishē Durean and Catholicos of Armenia Gēorg V (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le célibat et l'amour; traité de vie passionnelle et de dilection féminine. (Mercure de France, 1912), by Octave Uzanne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire du mariage des prêtres en France, particulièrement depuis 1789. (Baudouin, Frères, 1826), by M. Grégoire (page images at HathiTrust)
• William McGarvey and the open pulpit; an intimate history of a celibate movement in the Episcopal church and of its collapse, 1870-1908 (The Dolphin press, 1935), by Edward Hawks (page images at HathiTrust)
• An essay on the law of celibacy imposed on the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church, and observed in all the religious orders abroad; in which are delineated its rise, and progress from the most early ages of its existence, down to the present times; and the impropriety of this ecclesiastical constitution is shewn ... as also, a summary account is given of the origin of the monastic life ... &c. Interspersed with various remarks upon several other observances of the Roman Catholic discipline ... (Printed and sold by M. Lewis; [etc., etc., 1782), by John Hawkins (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le célibat dans l'antiquité envisagé au point de vue civil; les ancétre, l'état, l'Inde, l'Iran, Israël, Grèce, Rome, christianisme. (Giard & Brière, 1895), by Lucien Bocquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Cölibat der Geistlichen nach canonischem Rechte, mit besonderer Beziehung auf das Recht der österreichisch-ungarischen Monarchie. (Manz, 1880), by Franz Laurin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Einführung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit bei den christlichen Geistlichen und ihre Folgen. (H. Klein, 1891), by Johann Anton Theiner, Friedrich Nippold, and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Christianity, and the doctrines of the Oxford tracts (H. Hooker, 1840), by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Einführung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit bei den christlichen Geistlichen und ihre Folgen. Ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte (Verlag der Hofbuchdruckerei, 1828), by Johann Anton Theiner and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les inconvéniens du célibat de prêtres: prouvés par des recherches historiques (Chez J.L. Pellet, Imprimeur de la République, 1781), by Jacques Maurice Gaudin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eine Römische Criminalacte aus dem Jahre 1842 : zur Sittengeschichte des Cölibats. (Bandenhoed und Ruprecht, 1847) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considérations sur le célibat, relativement a la politique, a la population, et aux bonnes moeurs (Chez Moutardier, 1801), by M. Poncet de la Grave (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian moderation. (D.A. Talboys, 1837), by Joseph Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Christianity, and the doctrines of the Oxford tracts for the times (Bohn, 1844), by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die jungfräuliche frau; eine beleuchtung. (Appelius, 1899), by Käte Sebaldt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Défense des considérations sur le célibat, relativement à la population, aux moeurs et à la politique. En réponse à la critique du célibataire anonyme, insérée dans le Journal de Paris du 24 Brumaire, an 10, no. 54, pag. 320 et 321. (Moutardier, 1802), by M. Poncet de la Grave (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1793), by William Hayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le mariage des prétres : ou récit de ce qui s'est passé à trois séances des assemblées générales du District de Saint Etienn-du-Mont, où l'on a agité la question du mariage des prêtres ; avec la motion principale, et les opinions des honorables membres qui ont appuyé la motion ; publié au profit des pauvres ménages du District de Saint Etienne-di-Mont. (s.n.], 1790), by France : District) Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lettres sur le célibat des ministres de l'eglise. (chez Leclere, 1791), by Pierre-Grégoire Herluison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Je cherche le bonheur, ou le célibat le mariage, et le divorce, sous le rapport des moeurs, de la société et du bonheur des individus. (Moutardier, An X, 1801), by A.e.f.s.f.d.c.e (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la jurisprudence sur le mariage des prêtres, dénoncée à la chambre des députés, et des règles du code civil sur le mariage. (chez Videcoq, 1834) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Réflexions nouvelles sur la question de savoir si nos lois autorisent le mariage des prêtres. Par un avocat à la cour royale de Paris. (Éd. Bricon, 1828) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. (Printed for T. Cadell, 1785), by William Hayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Du prêtre, de la femme, de la famille (Cans et Compagnie, 1845), by Jules Michelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Logos sōtērias pros tēn parthenon (romanized form) [De virginitate] (J. C. Hinrichs, 1905), by Saint Athanasius and Eduard Alexander Golz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priesterehen und Mönchsehen : rechtliche Natur der Scheidung von Tisch und Bett. Zwei Abhandlungen aus dem österreichischen Recht (G. Fischer, 1910), by Josef Unger (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of clerical celibacy in western Europe to the Council of Trent (Pub. by the author, 1903), by Earl Evelyn Sperry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Grave question a résoudre; Ne faut-il pas que le prêtre se Marie. (L. Giraud, 1864), by Paul Fortini (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le mariage des prêtres, réponse a Jules Favre. Suivie du concordat, des articles organiques et de la lettre du Cardinal Caprara. (C. Douniol, 1862), by Jules Theodose Loyson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Débats sur la question du mariage des prêtres : Plaidoiries de Mes Jules Favre et Mie, neveu; conclusions de M. Bourgade, procureur impérial; jugement du tribunal. Solution: L'engagement dans les ordres sacrés n'est pas un empêchement au mariage. (Imp. Dupont et Ce, 1862), by Dordogne. Tribunal civil Périgueux, Bourgade, Louis Mie, and Jules Favre (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Einführung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit bei den christlichen Geistlichen und ihre Folgen : ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte (H. A. Pierer, 1845), by Johann Anton Theiner and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priests, women, and families (Printed for Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1845), by Jules Michelet and C. Cocks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les curés mariés par le Concile. (E. Dentu, 1869), by J.-M. Cayla (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priests, women and families (Charles Edmonds, 1846), by Jules Michelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• De la confession et du célibat des prêtres, ou La politique du pape. (comptoir des imprimeurs unis, 1845), by Francisque Bouvet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priests, women, and families (Protestant Evangelical Mission, 1874), by Jules Michelet (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letter from Daniel Offord with reply by Koresh [pseud.] ([Mt. Lebanon, N.Y.?, 1892), by Daniel Offord and Koresh (page images at HathiTrust)
• A philosophical, historical, and moral essay on old maids. (Printed by William Porter, for Messrs. White, Byme, Cash, and Moore, 1786), by William Hayley (page images at HathiTrust)
• An historical sketch of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church (Houghton, Mifflin and co., 1884), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Why should priests wed? (A. E. Costello, 1888), by James Chancy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kunigų celibatas ("Keleivio" spauda ir lėšomis, 1915), by George Townshend Fox (page images at HathiTrust)
• The doctrine of Holy Scripture and of the Primitive Church, on the subject of religious celibacy with a vindication of the early church from the mistakes of the author of "Ancient Christianity." : in three parts (Printed for J.G.F. & J. Rivington, 1841), by James Beaven (page images at HathiTrust)
• Peut-on être heureux sans se marier? (s.n., in the 19th century), by Victorien de Saussy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Gesta Romanae ecclesiae des kardinals Beno und andere streitschriften der schismatischen kardinäle wider Gregor VII. (C.C. Buchner, 1892), by Joseph Schnitzer and Cardinal Benno (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Cölibatszwang und dessen Aufhebung (P. Neusser, 1876), by Joh. Friedrich von Schulte (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church (Williams and Norgate, 1907), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le célibat des prêtres et ses conséquences. (Genève, 1874), by Fortuné Chavard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recueil de documents; la nature, la Bible, le cléricalisme et le pouvoir civil dans la question du Célibat forcé des prêtres. (Imp. Taponnier et Studer, 1884), by G. Gaspard (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of sacerdotal celibacy in the Christian church. (Houghton Mifflin & co, 1884), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aperçu historique sur le mariage des prêtres dans l'église d'Occident jusqu'au concile de Trente. (Imp. de C. Noblet, 1901), by François-Fleury Granjon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le célibat ecclésiastique devant l'histoire et devant la conscience : conférences données dans l'église de Saint-Joseph a Genève, le 20 novembre et le 4 décembre 1904, sous les auspices de la Fédération catholique genevoise (Garin, 1905), by Eugène Carry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Priests, women, and families (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846), by Jules Michelet and Benno Loewy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le paroissien du célibataire; observations physiologiques et morales sur l'état du célibat (May & Motteroz, 1890), by Octave Uzanne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A voz da verdade da Santa Igreja Catholica confundindo a voz da mentira do amante da humanidade : para sedativo da effervescencia casamenteira dos modernos anti-celibatarios, O. D. C. aos Ex. e Rev. Senhores Prelados da Santa Igreja do Brazil (Typografia de Bulhões, 1830), by Luiz Gonçalves dos Santos (page images at HathiTrust)
• Storia del celibato ecclesiastico nella chiesa cristiana. (Cultura Moderna, 1911), by Henry Charles Lea (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le célibat ecclésiastique jusqu'au Concile de Trente ... (V. Giard & E. Brière, 1895), by Lucien Bocquet (page images at HathiTrust)
• A treatise of the celibacy of the clergy : wherein its rise and progress are historically considered (Printed by H. Clark, for J. Adamson, 1688), by Henry Wharton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Supplex libellua ad Romanum pontificem nunc feliciter regnantem, as emm. cardinales Curial Romanae eorumque consiliarios. ([Rome, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Eine römische Criminalacte aus dem Jahre 1842 : zur Sittengeschichte des Cölibats. (Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 1847), by Domenico Abbo and Francesca Capelloni (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Einführung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit bei den christlichen Geistlichen und ihre Folgen : Ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte (Verlag der Hofbuchdruckerei, 1828), by Johann Anton Theiner and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Einführung der erzwungenen Ehelosigkeit bei den christlichen Geistlichen und ihre Folgen : ein Beitrag zur Kirchengeschichte (H.U. Pierer, 1845), by Johann Anton Theiner and Augustin Theiner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Demonstration of the necessity of abolishing a constrained clerical celibacy : exhibiting the evils of that institution, and the remedy (Philadelphia : Sorin and Ball, 1844., 1844), by Diogo Antônio Feijó and Daniel P. Kidder (page images at HathiTrust)
• Should Protestant ministers marry? (Philadelphia : [Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Ministerial Relief and Sustentation], 1913., 1913), by Marion Harland (page images at HathiTrust)
• El celibato forzoso y el matrimonio de los eclesiasticos (Cuzco, Perú : H.G. Rozas, 1928., 1928), by Juan Alberto Cavagneri (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A treatise of the celibacy of the clergy wherein its rise and progress are historically considered. (London : Printed by H. Clark for James Adamson ..., 1688), by Henry Wharton (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Discourse concerning the celibacy of the clergy. (Printed at Oxford : [s.n.], 1687), by R. H. (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A treatise of marriage with a defence of the 32th article of religion of the Church of England : viz. bishops, priests and deacons are not commanded by God's law either to vow the state of single life, or to abstain from marriage : therefore it is lawful for them, as for all other men, to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness. (London : Printed by J.D. and are to be sold by R. Chiswel, 1673), by Thomas Hodges (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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