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The decrees of the Councils of Mentz and Mayence against

Mezerai's account of the great ignorance of the French bishops and clergy

THE NINTH CENTURY.

Great corruption of the English people

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Great contentions in the Eastern Church about images Under the pressure of persecution a great apostasy from the faith in Spain

Distracted state of the French Church

Great moral corruption in Belgic Gaul.

A schism between the Greek and Roman Churches
Pope John VIII. complains of the perversity of the wicked
within the Church

Confession of the Council of St. Macara of the general sin-
fulness of the bishops, priests, and people

priestly immorality

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Fleuri's account of the moral corruption at Rome
Denina ascribes almost all the civil wars between the
descendants of Charlemagne to the exorbitant power
of the bishops

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Some of the Italian bishops appear in arms
Pope Formosus affirmed that heresies and schisms sprang

Denina

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up on all sides in the Roman Church

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The outrage committed by Pope Stephen VII. upon the corpse of Pope Formosus

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Some of the religious controversies of this century
Platina's account of the Papal and general corruption

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Genebrard says, that for about 150 years, of fifty Popes, all but five of them were apostatical, rather than apostolical

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Baronius shews that the Papal succession from St. Peter was completely destroyed

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An account of the wicked Pope Servius from Labbæus'

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Councils

The corrupt state of the French Church in the tenth Century 154 Disorderly state of the French monasteries

Immorality of the French priests

Gross French episcopal and clerical ignorance
Election to the Papal chair of the wicked Pope John X.
Labbæus' Councils

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Labbæus 160

The general ignorance in Italy and its evil consequences
Irregular election of Pope John XII.

The Roman Council in which John XII. was deposed for

immorality and sacrilege

The epistle of the above Council to John XII., in which they accuse him of homicide, perjury, and incest The Roman Council called by John XII. which denounces the above Council

Pope Benedict VI. is strangled by Boniface, a cardinal, who sat as Pope for a year and one month

Baronius calls those who occupied the Papal chair in this century robbers and highwaymen

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Great clerical immorality, especially of the Italian Clergy

Immorality of the English Clergy

THE ELEVENTH CENTURY.

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Dupin 168 Labbæus 169

Schism in the Roman See

Baronius' account of the Papal

Cerberus

Dupin 170

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Great tumult at the election of Pope Alexander II. Dupin 173 Great ignorance of the clergy

Fleury

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Great simony among Roman ecclesiastics
Pope Alexander II. said that in the Church at Lucca, the
Church and its belongings were exposed to sale like
merchandise

Extracts from Pope Alexander II.'s letters descriptive of
clerical immoralities

Great decline of piety among the English before the Norman
Conquest

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(William of Malmesbury and Henry of Huntingdon) 178 Baronius compares the Roman clergy to foxes, wolves, lions,

and scorpions

Gregory VIIth's picture of the corruption of the Church
Baronius and Labbæus

Gregory VIIth's description of the corruption in France
Gregory VIIth's account of episcopal corruption and of the
desolation of the Christian religion

Waltram, bishop of Naumberg's account of the evils arising from the disputes between the Pope and German Emperor

Genebrard's account of priestly depravity

The Bishop of Mans' description of the Court of Rome
Matthew Paris describes a schism in the Church
Fleuri's account of Papal ambition

Rome and Italy infested by cut-throats

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(William of Malmesbury) 186

Muratori proves that Gregory VI. obtained the Popedom

by simony

He shews that simony was general throughout Italy

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Character of the eleventh Century from the "Giornale de'

letterati"

Outrage and tumult at Milan, the Archbishop was bastinadoed

The Council of Clairemont enjoins priestly celibacy and fasting

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THE CORRUPTIONS OF THE TWELFTH CENTURY. St. Bernard depicts the incapacity and ambition of the clergy 191 St. Bernard's account of the horrid and disgusting depravity

of the clergy

St. Bernard's description of the luxury and vanity of the
monks, and of the devices by which, through the
richly decorated relics, they obtained money; the
spiritual poverty of the Church.

His description of the pomp of the Abbots
His account of the people of Rome, in which he says that
the Roman pastures are rather those of devils than
of sheep

The general prevalence of simony in the French Church

Baronius

Baronius

The unhappy state of the Norman Church
Pope Gelasius, when driven out of Rome, denounces it as
Babylon

Indiscipline in the Irish Church for fifteen generations

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Baronius 199

Many of the Roman Cardinals were bribed by the King of
England

St. Thomas (a Becket) says that every one of the great men
(potentum) fornicates with Rome

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The venality of the priests and indiscipline of the monasteries

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Honorius Augustodunensis calls Rome, Babylon
The venality of the clergy and desolate aspect of the Church
St. Bernard

John of Salisbury's character of the Roman Church
St. Elizabeth reproaches the prelates for their pomp and
luxury

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The corrupt state of Christianity at Jerusalem
Pope Paschal states that the greater part of the English
priests were the sons of priests

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Certain of the English priests return to their wives and

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Conciliar decrees against clerical immorality The second General Council of Lateran issues a decree against priests who were married or had concubines 207 The ordinations of the Antipope Peter Leo and others are declared to be void

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The ordinations of Octavian declared to be void by the
Council of Turin

The decree of the third General Council of Lateran against

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immoral priests

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The general prevalence of dissensions and scandals in Chris

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Labbæus

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Simony and other abuses in Sweden and Gothland
The prevalence of heresy in France, Spain, Italy, and Ger-
many
Schisms in the Papacy at the close of the eleventh and be-
ginning of the twelfth century

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211, 212, 213

Evils resulting from these schisms in Germany, scarcely
any properly ordained priests to be found there

St. Bernard's description of the evils of these schisms
Rebellion of the Romans in the time of Arnald

Baronius' account of the schism and mutual Papal excom

munications, an. 1159

Evils of the schisms as related, Labbæus' Councils
Fleuri's account of the schism

THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY.

Innocent III. laments the corruption of the clergy and

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Church in general, an. 1215

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Honorius III. laments the corruption of the clergy and the negligence of the prelates

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Gregory IX. describes the evils under which the Church laboured

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Gregory IX. depicts the decrease of faith and the increase
of iniquity

A dreadful heresy in Germany
Pope Innocent IV. at the General Council of Lyons says

much respecting the irregular conduct of the prelates
and of those who were subject to them

Awful description of the general corruption of the priests
and laity given by the Bishop of Lincoln, Grossetête,
before the Pope and his cardinals at the General
Council of Lyons

Pope Alexander IV. laments the corruption of the priests

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Grossetête's account of the gross ignorance of many of the

priests

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Pope Gregory X. speaks of the general subversion of morals

in priests and people

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At the second General Council of Lyons, the Pope says that
the prelates were ruining the whole world
Fleury's account of the unhappy state of Western Christen-

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The Pope wishes to confer the best English benefices on

Italians

Fleury 238

Sad state of the Church in Germany
General incontinence of the clergy
Certain abuses in the French Church
Extracts from Matthew Paris' History

The pride and avarice of the Pope
The venality of the Roman Court.

Fleury 238

Fleury 240

Fleury 240

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Disorders in the monasteries of Canterbury

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Decay of faith and simony in the English Church
Great disorders and venality at Rome

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The Church of Rome as a bold harlot sets everything
to sale

Insatiable cupidity of the Roman Church
Extortions of the Papal legate

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The King of France distrusts the avarice of the Pope
The King of England complains to the Pope

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All respect for the Roman Church and the Papal Court
gone in England

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Disputes between the religious orders

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Fleury's account of the misconduct of the religious orders 257-8 Muratori's description of the unhappy state of Italy and

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The Constitutions of the Bishop of Salisbury, an. 1217 261

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The Council of Metz, an. 1225

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The Council of Rouen, an. 1231

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The Council of Sienna, an. 1239

Ancient precepts of the Diocese of Rouen, an. 1235

Constitutions of the Archbp. of Canterbury, an. 1236

The Synod of Worcester, an. 1240
The Council of Wetzlar, an. 1246

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Constitution for the diocese of Maestricht, an. 1247

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