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Troubles 21 Chester Cathedral soon followed, and the nature of the struggles may account for the fact that in less than a century the church had well-nigh gone, and another had been built on the ruins of it.
Thomas Capenhurst, who succeeded as twelfth Abbot in 1249, had to resist the hand of the spoilers, and in his time some of the buildings of the Abbey were destroyed to strengthen the city against a siege. But it was not only local troubles such as these which pressed hardly on the Church at... this time. It must be borne in mind that, though laymen were hard in wresting lands from the Church, ecclesiastics were unscrupulous also. It was a time of general unrest, and of that kind of unrest which hinders progress in Church work of all kinds. We have but to remember that at this period the reaction against Rome began ; it was at this very time that the great Bishop Grosseteste went to the Papal Court at Lyons to tell Pope Innocent IV. Home truths. He complained of the utter corruption in the Church, • * ^-'l ^m\ \ \ (For ' ^lA'f^'^ Chester Cathedral and boldly said before the Pope and his Court : — " The cause, the fountain, the origin of all this is this Court of Rome, not only in that it does not put to flight these evils and purge away these abominations, when it alone has the power to do so, and is pledged most fully to do so ; but still more because by its dispensations, pro- visions, and collations to the pastoral care it appoints before the eyes of this sun men such as I have described, not pastors but destroyers of men.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Troubles 21 Chester Cathedral soon followed, and the nature of the struggles may account for the fact that in less than a century the church had well-nigh gone, and another had been built on the ruins of it.
Thomas Capenhurst, who succeeded as twelfth Abbot in 1249, had to resist the hand of the spoilers, and in his time some of the buildings of the Abbey were destroyed to strengthen the city against a siege. But it was not only local troubles such as these which pressed hardly on the Church at... this time. It must be borne in mind that, though laymen were hard in wresting lands from the Church, ecclesiastics were unscrupulous also. It was a time of general unrest, and of that kind of unrest which hinders progress in Church work of all kinds. We have but to remember that at this period the reaction against Rome began ; it was at this very time that the great Bishop Grosseteste went to the Papal Court at Lyons to tell Pope Innocent IV. Home truths. He complained of the utter corruption in the Church, • * ^-'l ^m\ \ \ (For ' ^lA'f^'^ Chester Cathedral and boldly said before the Pope and his Court : — " The cause, the fountain, the origin of all this is this Court of Rome, not only in that it does not put to flight these evils and purge away these abominations, when it alone has the power to do so, and is pledged most fully to do so ; but still more because by its dispensations, pro- visions, and collations to the pastoral care it appoints before the eyes of this sun men such as I have described, not pastors but destroyers of men.
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