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It never reformed.
Always Babylonian
http://uo-medievalchristianity.weebly.com/blog/category/avignon-papacy
"In 1358, Petrarch wrote a series of letters to his friend, Francesco Nelli, expressing his frustration with the Avignon and the Avignon Papacy and compared it to Babylon. Letter 18 reflects Petrarch’s dislike for Avignon and the Avignon Papacy and his desire for the return of the popes to Rome. Petrarch felt that the Avignon was a place of vice, ambition, fornication and immense evil and would fall into ruin just as the city of Babylon did. Petrarch used Revelations 17 and 18 and its apocalyptic allusions from the bible to illustrate his argument in relation to the corrupt city of Babylon. Petrarch compared the Avignon Papacy to how the Israelites were held “captive” for 70 years in Babylon to the reign of the Avignon Papacy in France. Petrarch was frustrated with the papacy and its corruption both in its attainment of wealth and the sexual escapades of the popes.
Analysis:
Letter 18 was written to hold the papacy accountable for the fall of the church in Avignon. Petrarch called Avignon the “small Babylon” and although it was small in size, it was great in “vices, ambition, and infinite cupidity, by the heaping up of all evils you are not only great, but the greatest, you are immense” (92). Petrarch accuses the popes of “ravishings, the rapes, the incest, the adultery which now are games of pontifical wantonness” (94) which lead to corruption and falling away of God’s teachings. Although the city of Avignon might be small in comparison to Babylon, the greatness of its sin was immense. Petrarch condemns the popes as “fornicators and abomination of the earth”. Petrarch used the apocalyptic allusions in Revelations 17 and 18 to illustrate the correlation between Avignon and Babylon to demonstrate how greed and sexual depravity caused Babylon to fall and that this was the future for Avignon and its papacy. By exploring the history of the Avignon Papacy and its corruption, one can see an enlightened path to Christendom by following God’s commands and not allowing the corruption of man to influence papal decisions and policies. "
There was no "Return" to Rome.
Catherine of SIENNA was who allegedly prompted the move.
It was never there before.