Did Jesus have a wife?

Recently I wrote about German theologian Uta Ranke-Heinemann and her breakthrough study on the oppression of women and supression of sexuality in the Roman Catholic Church.  In her book, Ranke-Heinemann documents that the doctrine of priestly celibacy is based on a wilful distortion of the Gospels and what we know of the historical Jesus.  There is absoutely no evidence that Jesus himself was celibate, and Ranke-Heinemann speculates that Jesus may have even had a wife.  Ranke-Heinmeann was hounded out of the Church for her blasphemous views.  Now, based on a newly -discovered papyrus fragment, it appears that Ranke-Heinemann was correct.  Not only is there evidence that Jesus may have married, but he may also have had a female disciple:

The faded papyrus fragment is smaller than a business card, with eight lines on one side, in black ink legible under a magnifying glass. Just below the line about Jesus having a wife, the papyrus includes a second provocative clause that purportedly says, “she will be able to be my disciple.”

The discovery has implications for the Catholic Church, calling into question not only the insistence on priestly celibacy, but also the prohibition on ordaining women as priests.  Celibacy, in particular, has had devastating consequences for clergy and is at the heart of the child rape scandal that has ravaged the Church for decades. 

Eugen Drewermann, the German theologian and psychologist who was expelled from the priesthood by Josef Ratzinger, has written extensively on the terrible spiritual consequences from the Church's opposition placed between the love of God and love of humans.  He writes in his 1991 book Kleriker - Psychogramm eines Ideals:

"Celibacy as anticipation of death - what kind of life could follow from that! Earthly life is no hurdle to jump on the way to heaven. It is the mirror of eternity into which one has to look as intensely as possible because all we can ever know of God on earth is reflected in it.  Only one who has lived well will die with ease."

Will new insight into the historical Jesus lead to any changes in Church doctrine?  Sadly, no.

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[koogleschreiber]

Since Emperor Constantine the church is a hybrid of several religious cults in order to justify ceasaropapism and imperial power and the bible is only a concept and tool specifically designed for this purpose. "Give back to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's." said Jesus. "The Church has neither to say yes nor no, but only amen." said Konrad Adenauer, apparently a true believer.
You can breed hybrids, but you can't develop hybrids to new breeds: They would fall to devolution.