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How did riches and power lead to Church abuses and then to reforms?

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Riches and power lead to Church abuses and then to reforms because some nuns and monks started ignoring their vows of poverty. In the early 900s however, Abbot Berno revived the Benedictine rule of obedience, poverty, and chastity.
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