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Legacies of money from the Pope, corrupted by base original: "turpissima" means 98.2.
Leo I, Emperor, prohibited the alienation of immovable property of the greater Church of Constantinople under certain penalties 69.1.
Leo, Emperor of this name the first, did not cease to correct Papal law by his own law 126.2.
Leo X acknowledged the commended disease referring to the abuse of "commendams," where ecclesiastical revenues were granted to non-residents, but prevented it from being cured 122.2.
Constitution of Leo II on avoiding Simony 104.1.
Confession of Leo XI on the most base life of his predecessors 66.2.
Law of Constantine on the possession of estates in the Church 20.1.
Law of tithes 13.2.
Law on the inheritances of laymen 14.2.
Law of Emperor Justinian on the goods of the Church 22.1.
Law of Nicephorus on not increasing the landed estates of monasteries 51.1.
Liberality of Augustine toward the poor 6.1.
How the liberality of listeners is to be excited 23.2.
Note of Livy for the author on tithes 18.2.
Liberality of the faithful in the time of the Apostles 29.2.
Children and those who are to be informed in morals 125.1.
Trifles of lawsuits in the Church not to be tolerated 135.2.
Most elegant passage of Chrysostom on Ecclesiastical estates 22.2.
Money-bags of Christ 28.2.
Ecclesiastical enrichment diminishes tithes 23.2.
Lucian III decreed that those who sought a benefice at Rome should first state if they obtained any other benefice, otherwise the request for a new one would be void 126.1.
Louis, King of the Franks, did not allow the exactions of annates a year's revenue of a benefice paid to the Pope to be collected in his kingdom 117.1.
Luxury of cenobites monks living in a community 47.1.
Christ rejects human luxury for his priests 10.2.
Luxury of the seculars 94.2.
Misfortunes arising from the retention of estates in the Church 23.2.
When the evil of avarice troubled the ministers of Christ 29.2.
Unjust Mammon 37.2.
Special mandates of Canons 192. Of Clerics and Monks ibid.
Mandates in the New Testament are twofold 10.1.
Manuel Comnenus innovated the law of Nicephorus on not increasing landed estates, which had been abolished by Basil 51.1.
Where and how the monastery of Manuel Comnenus was founded 51.1.
From where our ancestors had an abundance of all supplies 23.2.
Mother of clerical insolence 94.1.
Comparison of Mathematics with Theology 12.1.
Marcellinus the Gentile on the schism of Damasus 42.2.
Martha is necessary for Mary 47.1.
Martin V declared that simoniacs promoted should be barred from sacred exercise 113.2. Also that burdens are to be imposed upon all Prelates, even Apostolic ones, afterward over the Churches ibid.
The Second Council of Mâcon on the obligation of tithes 14.2.
Decree of the Council of Mâcon on altar offerings 4.2.
Error of Melchiades on the possession of estates in the Church 20.1.
Table accustomed to delicacies 34.1.
The mind of man is blinded by greed 123.2.
Infamous merchandise of the Roman Curia 96.2.
The wages of the ministers of the word must be universal, not arbitrary 16.1.
The wage of a minister of the Church is twofold 6.1.
Religious soldiers likely referring to military orders like the Knights Templar, how they ought to use the fruits of their commendams 114.2.
An avaricious minister of the Church is like Judas the betrayer 7.2.
How far ministers of the Church should abstain from riches and opulence 7.1.
Ministers of the Church are needy, yet they enrich many 9.2.
Ministers of the early Church did not exact the offerings by which they were sustained by authority 7.1.
Why the ministers of the primitive Church did not exact tithes 16.1.
What the life of ministers of the Church ought to be 4.2.
The collation of sacred ministry does not depend on the exaction of annates 111.1.
When and where the Parochial Mass is to be celebrated 129.1.
Abuse of private Masses 129.1.
Perverse mercy: to provide sustenance to idle Monks 46.2.
A mixture made from Monasticism and the Clericate 49.1.
Modesty of Bishop Paschasius 41.2.
Canon of the Council of Mainz on the common life of Clerics 73.1.
A Monk who does not work is judged equal to a robber 47.2.
A Monk cannot make a will 141.1.
How Monks arrived at the riches they now enjoy 50.1.
Monks are distinguished from Sarabaites a type of undisciplined, wandering monk 47.1.
Ancient Monks established rules for themselves by their own choice 48.2.
What mechanical art the ancient Monks practiced 48.2.
Monks embraced the clerical state 50.2.
Monks of the diocese of Amiens obtained victory against their Bishop in manifest fraud regarding prebends by the corrupt granting of gifts to Paschal 97.1.
Monks explained Paul's saying in 2 Thess. 3 regarding spiritual work unskillfully 46.1.
Monks are richer than seculars 47.2.
Rich Monks ought to value poor laymen 48.1.
Monks ought not to live in common from patrimonial goods 49.1.
Monks ought to live by the labor of their hands 44.1.
Monks made cultivated estates out of uncultivated forests 49.1.
Monks are placed in the number of the poor of Christ 45.2.
Modern Monks do not have even a trace of true Monasticism 52.2.
Monks ought not to be idle, but active 46.1.
Monks have no right to the offerings of the faithful; they ought to be sustained ordinarily not by Church goods, but by their own labors ibid.
Monks, because of sloth, driven from monasteries 46.2.
Monks lived by rural work 47.1.
Monks should not be hindered in manual work by prayer and psalmody 45.1.
Monks embraced the Paulinian way of living by labor 49.1.
Monks retaining property depart from their rule 48.2.
Monks ought to help the need of others rather than expect aid from elsewhere 44.1.
Monks, why they have red arms 47.1.
How Monks are to be reduced to their own confession 73.2.
How Monks ought to renounce the world 42.1.
The habit of monks is hypocrisy 47.1.
Monks under the title of religion exercised unjust gains 50.1.
Affability of Monks 53.1.
The magnates among Monks throw a sufficiently good part of the riches they managed into the mouth of the Wolf 55.1.