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Notorious for luxurious living. having banquets went on for days and spending church money in order to take care of themselves. >> but the avignon papacy worked. it's much more central to europe than the italian peninsula. it was efficient. it had a decent bureaucracy. there's actually a good case for the avignon papacy. big problem, though. it doesn't have the tomb of peter. what's the point of a pope who doesn't sit at the tomb of peter? >> despite being miles from the spiritual foundation of the papacy, pope clement v remains in france and continues to lead the church under king philip un...

The name clemat v becomes the pope. philip asks them to come to france to crown him pope. >> the popes, of course, had been appointed in rome from the time of st. peter. >> king phillip of france has a powerful hold on clement v. he's a weak man and she's intimidated. >> he did whatever was asked. >> clement v promised philip a flatout portion of the church tithe. he signed off on the expulsion of jews as a danger to the church, in knowledge that the wealth was going to go to phillip. that's very blatant. >> by 1309 king philip has turned pope clement v into a

Church that becomes very troubling. you're abdicating the seat of where the church is supposed to lie. if you leave the bones of peter behind and you're not moving them, you're moving to this other place, what you're saying is that maybe this isn't as important to the church as we had thought it was previously. now it becomes a really dangerous situation for holding together not just the papacy, but beliefs and tenets of the church. >> it cost religious authority throughout europe. but once the church becomes established in france, pope clement v finds that despite being hundreds of miles from...

After this, was absolutely notorious for luxurious living. spending church money in order to take care of themselves. >> but the avignon papacy worked. it's in southern france. it's much more central to europe than the italian peninsula. it was efficient. it had a decent bureaucracy. there's actually a good case for the avignon papacy. a big problem, though -- it doesn't have the tomb of peter. what's the point of a pope who doesn't sit at the tomb of peter? >> despite being miles from the spiritual foundation of the papacy, pope clement v remains in france and continues to lead the church und...

After this, was notorious for let me ask y luxurious living. spending church money in order to take care of themselves. >> but the avignon papacy worked. it much more ctral to europe than the italian peninsula. it was efficient. it had a decent bureaucracy. there's actually a good case for the avignon pay pacy. it doesn't have the tomb of peter. what's the point of a pope who doesn't sit at the tomb of peter? >> despite being miles from the spiritual foundation of the papacy, pope clement v remains in france and continues to lead the church under king philip until they both die in 1314. the su...