quam fere constat sic per singulos dies morientum patrum proficere defectu, ut non solum quoslibet haereticos praesentum verum etiam haeresiarchas priorum temporum potuerit inflectere: ita populos excessu pontificum orbatos tristis intercisae fidei desperatio premit.
it is generally agreed that, so increasingly extensive is this ruin becoming because of the daily decrease in the ranks of priests through death, that it might appal not only any heretics of the present but also arch-heretics of past days: to such an extent are the peoples, left desolate by the death of their bishops, sunk in a gloomy despair at the disruption of their faith.
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