Write a short note on the degradation of Pope's status in the 14th century?

In the fourteenth century the Papacy met with a series of misfortunes, of which the English kings were not slow to avail themselves. The temporal over lordship of the Pope was definitely repudiated. Nor was this all. He lost also the important advantage of being able to fill the bishopries with his own nominees. By these and other measures the Parliaments of Edward III and his successors began that process of separation from Rome which the work of Henry VIII completed. Such then, briefly, are the main political and social tendencies of the time of which Chaucer and Langland lived and wrote-a transitional age, with the old Feudalism slowly losing its pristine vigor and utility, with a great Church rich in its traditions of intellectual and moral guidance, exhibiting signs of decadence and enfeeblement; yet with no clear ideals as yet, or only dimly limned ideals, as to what form of social reconstruction was to take their place.