Question

Use the passage to answer the question next to the theologians and happiness are those who call themselves the religious and monks both are complete misnomers since a great part of them are farthest from religion and no people are seeing more often in public they are so detested that people take it for you luck to meet one of them by chance yet they flatter themselves they are so illiterate that they can't so much as read most of them capitalize on their dirt and poverty by whining for food from door to door these peasant fellows with all this violiness ignorance rudeness and impudence represent to us the lives of the apostles the monks of certain orders are afraid to touch money as poison and yet neither restrained from wine nor dally with women. According to Erasmus in the passage from the praise of holy which is an accurate analysis of the Catholic clergy?

A. members of the clergy live spiritual lives that their parishioners were expected to imitate.

B. Members of the clergy failed to live up to their expectations as religious role models.

C. Members of the clergy were responsible for promoting reform within the Catholic Church.

D. Members of the clergy were corrupt but well loved by their parishioners.

Answer 1

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B. Members of the clergy failed to live up to their expectations as religious role models.