Note 938 — XXIII. THE HERESIES.
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A Wickliffite tract (“De Officio Pastorali,” published by Prof. Lechler, Leipzig, 1863) takes strong ground on this point. Speaking of unchaste priests, it says (P. I. cap. viii. pp. 16-17), “Talis sic notorie sustentans curatum dat imprudenter elemosinam contra Christum ... periculosum peccatum est crimini consentire; sed sic faciunt qui taliter curato in temporalibus subministrant.” And again (P. I. cap. xvii.), “Subditi enim non debent audire missam talium sacerdotum, et per consequens non debent dare sibi oblaciones vel decimas, ne videantur consencientes crimini sic notorio in curatis.”