after this, was notorious for let me ask y luxurious living. spending church money in order to take care of themselves. but the avignon papacy worked. it much more ctral to europe than the italian peninsula. it was efficient. it had a decent bureaucracy. there s actually a good case for the avignon pay pacy. it doesn t have the tomb of peter. what s the point of a pope who doesn t sit at the tomb of peter? despite being miles from the spiritual foundation of the papacy, pope clement v remains in france and continues to lead the church under king philip until they both die in 1314. the successor continues his papacy in avignon as does the