With PoDs after the Council of Nicea, could Christianity have developed a tradition of castration for men joining the clergy? And to be clear, my preference is for this to be within Trinitarian Christianity, or those who recite the Nicene Creed; difficult, I realize. It may, or might not, turn into a condition of being elevated to the priesthood, but should survive as a viable and accepted (more or less) path to spiritual growth, expressing devotion to God and the Church, etc.Matthew 19:12 said: