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Erasmus, In Praise of Folly Excerpt "[priests] insist that they’re properly performed their duty if they reel off perfunctorily their feeble prayers which I’d be greatly surprised if any god could hear or understand. . . but when it comes to harvesting their gains they’re all on the alert, every one of them an expert in the law. . .the priests who call themselves "secular: push the burden of piety on the regulars and they pass it on to the monks; the less strict monks shift it to the stricter orders, and the whole lot of them leave it to the mendicants; and from there, it goes to the Carthusians, amongst whom alone piety lies hidden in fact so well that you can scarcely get a glimpse of it.", Erasmus 1466-1536 McGrath writes of Erasmus The revolutionary significance of Erasmus Echchiridion lies in its daring new suggestion that the recognition of the Christian vocation of the lay person holds the key to the revival of the Church. Clerical and ecclesiastical authority is discounted. Scripture should and must be made available to all, in order that all may return ad fontes, to drink of the fresh and living waters of the christian faith, rather than the stagnant ponds of late medieval religion., Erasmus 1466-1536 And English Kings Personal tutor of young Henry VIII, Erasmus 1466-1536 and the Roman Church Although Erasmus remained a Roman Catholic throughout his lifetime, he harshly criticised what he considered excesses of the Roman Catholic Church and even turned down a Cardinalship when it was offered to him., Although Erasmus remained a Roman Catholic throughout his lifetime, he harshly criticised what he considered excesses of the Roman Catholic Church and even turned down a Cardinalship when it was offered to him. wrote In Praise of Folly