 of all the evil. This is what Pope Hadrian VI said, and then one final quote. This is from the historian Hilaire Belloc, writing about the spiritual state of things at the time. Quote, "'No one can deny that the evils provoking reform in the church were deep-rooted and widespread. They threatened the very life of Christendom itself. All who thought at all about what was going on around them realized how perilous things were and how great was the need of reform.'