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Pope. philip actually 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 philip of france has a very powerful hold on pope clement v. this is a weak man and he is intimidated by philip. >> clement is notorious. he just did whatever he was asked. >> clement 5 outright promised philip a flatout portion of the church tithe. it went straight into the royal coffers. he also signed off on the expulsion of jews as a danger to the church, in knowledge that the wealth was going to go to philip. that's very blatant. >> b...

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. that becomes a really dangerous situation for holding together not just the papacy, but holding together beliefs and tenets of the church. >> leaving rome costs the papacy its religious authority throughout europe. but once the church becomes established in france, pope clement v finds that despite being hundreds of miles from the bones of st. peter, ...

1294, king philip iv of france is determined to reassert his power over the papacy. but the new hope, boniface iv refuses to give in to the greed even monarch. >> philip iv comes to a time when warfare is brought by purchasing armies. he needs more money. >> the church is very wealthy. >> so when bon bon dies, king philip ensures that a pope who will give him what he wants is elected. >> expressed very clearly to the college of cardinals that he preferred this particular french candidate. it wasn't an easy election, but ultimately the french side was strong enough to win. >> a french prelate w...

And for having banquets that went on for days and for spending church money in order to take care of themselves. >> but the avignon papacy worked. it is in southern france. it's of 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, and 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 ...