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Paul W Keeley, consultant palliative physician1

¹Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow G4 0SF

Paul.Keeley{at}ggc.scot.nhs.uk

Sexual abuse by clergy was condemned by the Council of Elvira in 306 (the first recorded case of such a condemnation), but this was over 700 years before mandatory clerical celibacy. This rather undermines Delamothe’s argument about priestly celibacy1: sexual abuse of young people by those in authority has been around …