Popes, bishops, monks, and secular clergy all fell prey to simony and barbarism by the late 800’s, to a large degree due to the failure of the attempt to restore the Empire through the Carolingians. Dr. John Rao talks here of the tragic–though temporary–collapse of the dream of Christianizing and Romanizing the Germans.
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