Today we want to look at the Decline of the Medieval Church.
We will also cover a time that the Catholic Church had three popes at the same time. http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com http://andnowyouknowmore.blogspot.com
As the Roman Church assumed spiritual its authority and used it unmercifully against straying church members, and against other bishops.
The height of arrogance and assumed authority was in 1054 A.D. when Pope Leo IX issued the Bull of Excommunication against the Michael Ceruarius, Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople at the Church of Holy Wisdom. We covered this church July 22 & 24, and the Greek Orthodox Church. The Greek Orthodox was not a part of the growing Roman Catholic church. However to show his authority Pope Leo IX. He excommunicated the whole Eastern Orthodox Churches from …show more content…
The declaration concerns the Catholic-Orthodox exchange of excommunications in 1054. This joint declaration states that each church withdraws it excommunication of each other.
DECLINE OF THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH
The papacy declined to the point where the Bishops, for the most part were secular princes, caught up in wars and politics. By now the church had not lifted the heavy tax on its people. Unrest among some of the church leaders because of the penitential system, (the church offering divine grace for a fee). This system provided a great deal of support to the institutional church.
In the last half of the 13th century (particularly in France and England), the church became more and more involved in commercial enterprise, this brought about a division among church and commerce.
The last of the middle Ages are the Church's “darkest hour".
About this time Tran substation started. The bread became the body, the wine became the