- 60 - • They did not proclaim that the ideal perfection lay in taking vows of poverty and of chastity in the form of celibacy, and least of all, in blind obedience to ecclesiastic superiors. • They know no voluntary poverty, as the Catholic Church defines the term. • They founded no monastic orders, nor did they teach that such should be founded for people to enter, and on entering, endow them with their worldly goods.
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