Note 673 — Chapter IX · CONCLUSION.
Reading edition
Carmina Burana, Breslau, 1883, pp. 22-3.—This was a favorite theme with the poetasters of the time—
“Cardinales ut prædixi novo jure crucifixi vendunt patrimoniam. Petrus foris, intus Nero, intus lupus, foris vero sicut agni ovium” (Ib. p. 18),
and this pervaded the whole Church—
“Veneunt altaria, venit eucharistia cum sit nugatoria gratia venalis.”—(Ib. p. 41).
The honest Franciscan, John of Winterthur, attributed all the evils which oppressed the Church to its venality—
“Ecclesiam nummus vilem fecit meretricem, Nam pro mercede scortum dat se cupienti. Nummus cuncta facit nil bene justitia, Cunctis prostituens pro munere seque venalem, Singula facta negat vel agit pro stipite solo; Divino zelo nulla fere peragit.” Vitodurani Chron. ann. 1343.