[UA] Re: Re: [UA][OT] Mickeys' Illegitimate Kids

[holycrow at mindspring.com]

>In Renaissance times, when a clergyman didn't live up to his vow of >chastity and fathered a son, often the child woul be given to the >church under the patronage of that priest, who would raise the kid >into the clergy, all the while claiming the kid was his "nephew".  

So the one-liner about "Everyone calls a priest 'father' except his son, who calls him 'uncle'" dates back to the Renaissance?

-G.

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