"The church shall be catholic, chaste and free: catholic in faith and the communion of saints, chaste from all contagion of evil, and free from all secular power."
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Pope Urban II, Decree, quoted in Colin Morris, The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (1991), p. 125
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