... selling indulgences on a larger scale. Though limits were established, both legal and doctrinal, it was the deep-rooted greed of popes Julius II and Leo X, who were in dire desire of capital, that lead to its spread, until Pius V condemned and prohibited the trafficking of ... tenure to those clergy who were apt and able but also of good repute. Benedicts well off deeds were undone in large part due to Clement VI (1342-1352) and his spendthrift ways. One of the unwanted repercussions was the ever popular centralizing and ... totalitarian, intolerant, and even murderous institution is t...

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