 Madden argues that while medieval secular leaders were trying to safeguard their kingdoms, the Church was trying to save souls.The Inquisition provided a means for heretics to escape death and return to the community.The complaints of the two main preaching orders of the period, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, against the moral corruption of the Church, to some extent echoed those of the heretical movements, but they were doctrinally conventional, and were enlisted by Pope Innocent III in the fight against heresy.