XV. HOW FEUDALISM CORRUPTED THE CHURCH
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Comment Blog
Alan Schreck: As the ninth century ended, Islam was suppressing the Church in the East, and political stability and weak popes stifled the Western Church. Clergy were controlled by secular rulers and lapsed into illiteracy and unfaithfulness to their vow of celibacy. Even most of the monasteries had lost their fervor and became worldly or corrupt. The decline of the Western society and the decline of the Church went hand in hand, since the two were interrelated in so many ways.
“Mass priests”
Council of Elvira (302)
Pope Siricius (386)
Council of Trullo (692)
Pope Saint Gregory the Great: Pastoral Care
“above all, a teacher and director of souls”
Bishop Benno II of Osnabrück
Hildesheim
Pope St. Gregory VII; Emperor Henry IV
Synod at Brixen
Streptocarpus formosus
Oporosis formosus
Troodon formosus
Sclaropagus formosus
Bishop of Portus
Popes John VIII and Marinus I
King Arnulf of Germany and Duke Guido of Spoleto
Deacon Sergius: Castle Sant’Angelo
Pope Boniface VI’s 15 days
Pope Stephen VI: Synod of the Cadaver
Gregorovius
Romanus; Theodore II; John IX; Leo V
Christopher the Priest
Deacon Sergius: Pope Sergius III
The Theophylactus Family
Theodora
Daughters Theodora II and Marozia
Sergius III and Marozia – son John