“Erasmus, writing of the mendicant friars, says: “Those wretches in the disguise of poverty are the tyrants of the Christian world;” of bishops, they “destroy the Gospel… make laws at their will, tyrannize over the laity, and measure right and wrong with rules constructed by themselves… who sit, not in the seat of the Gospel, but in the seat of Caiaphas and Simon Magus, prelates of evil”; of priests, he wrote: “There are priests now in vast numbers, enormous herds of them, seculars and regulars, and it is notorious that very few of them are chaste”; of the Pope: “I saw with my own eyes Pope Julius II… marching at the head of a triumphal procession as if he were Pompey or Caesar. St. Peter subdued the world with faith, not with arms or soldiers or military engines; St. Peter’s successors would win as many victories as St. Peter won if they had Peter’s spirit”; of the singing of choristers in the churches: “Modern Church music is so constructed that the congregation cannot hear one distinct word….”