The Great Schism happened several hundred years before Philip and the Avignon captivity. You learned history in public schools, didn't you?
Nobody gives a flying hoot about the Templars anymore except the Masons.... which no Catholic can join to this day, incurring automatic excommunication for doing so.
I am not a Mason, nor am I "under their influence." The folks who called the Templars heretics and later made joining the Masons cause for automatic excommunication were serving interest's other than God's. They're the same folks who condemned Galileo and sold indulgences, stole from all and sundrie, ran brothels while they burned "heretics" at the stake (after gaining confessions under torture first, of course). Yep, I definitely think they were doing God's work and I should pay attention to the opinion of someone who follows their dictates /sarcasm
Evil is evil, whether perpetrated by Satlinists or the clergy. I do not condemn all priests for the freaks who infiltrated the Church in order to molest children. By the same token I do not ignore the fact that they committed great evil simply because theyare priests. That has been the problem with "defenders of the Church." They have felt that, in order to defend the Church, they must protect evil that has managed to insinuate itself into the Church. The defenders of the Church should be the ones leading the charge to ferret out evil, not protecting it and covering it up.
But all organizations run by men are subject to corruption, even if God calls them to do otherwise. The Israelites making the golden calf while Moses was on the mountain. Even Peter denied Christ. "All actions of an organization that claims to be devoted to God's work are to automatically be defended and adhrered to." That smacks of what the Ayatollah's use as their justification.
Right and wrong do matter. I'm sorry for those who "don't give a flying hoot." I think those who feel that way will have far more to answer for than someone who has joined the Masons, when the time comes. I have a feeling some standing witness against them will be wearing white surcoats with a large red cross on it, as well.