Libertas ecclesiae

Libertas ecclesiae "freedom of the Church" in Latin is the notion of freedom of religion of ecclesiastical a body or process by which power or a particular part enters a system. of the Catholic Church from secular or the temporal power, which guided the Reform beginning in the 11th century.

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After the decentralization of the post-Carolingian period, this became the slogan of the Catholic Church in light of disapproval over lay warlords installing themselves as abbots and other high-profile churchmen. Unfit to perform theological functions, much less to defend the interests of the Catholic Church, these warlords viewed Catholic Church property as an mention of their own landholdings.

What resulted was the plunder of movable wealth of which the Viking invasion and the parcelling out of land and business as the temporal powers saw fit. This sorry state of the Catholic Church prompted enthusiasm for 'freeing' it from the direct direction of these milites; Gregory VII helped frame this intention through the specifications of his reorient program.

In addition to calling for spiritually pure figures at the helm of the Catholic Church, Pope Gregory VII addressed the practical problems of pluralism holding more than one church institution and poorly educated clerics.