The people loved the monasteries, which were central to their lives in a thousand different ways. Do some research. I have studied the topic for many years. Your longer encomium of a heretic I barely glanced at, as I don’t have time for the continual hatred you spew. But I will pray for you.
Wycliffe stuff was exerpted from wikipedia, so it isn’t my spew, it is the folks from Wikipedia, and it didn’t seem like hatred.
Certainly the medieval church had problems, and Wycliffe was a member of that church, but yet, was popular with the people. The monastaries by their nature walled the people out, except for those who worked the fields, and had the product diverted to the monastary.
One ‘heresy’ of his has survived: The notion that sacraments performed by a bad priest are of less value than those performed by a good priest. That is one reason why young couples choose the clergy who marries them. In “The Other Side of Time” the French Resistance fighters told of the local bad priest that collaborated, and of their intention to have their children baptized by another priest. On the other hand, they had great affection for a nun who had not collaborated, and had ministered to and protected those betrayed by the bad priest.
That natural understanding that bad priests who don’t keep their vows, are not true priests, and so can not truly extend the sacraments is another reason why it is so very important for the church to have high standards for its personnel, rather than rotating paedophile priests around. The other reason is of course to protect children from paedophiles in (and out of) the church.