Original sentence: A series of seven popes resided in Avignon over a period of seventy years.Efforts to come to terms with powerful secular rulers, particularly in France and the Holy Roman Empire led to the election of an English pope who chose, (ostensiblt for reasons of health,) not to settle in Rome.In addition, the hypocrisy of some ordained men who lived luxurious lifestyles, or had mistresses and illegitimate children was one of many factors that opened the doors to the Protestant Reformation.Instead he settled, in land under French control, in Avignon
Edited sentence: Afterward, a series of seven popes resided in Avignon for seventy years.Efforts to appease these conflicts resulted in election of an English pope that did not want to settle in Rome for health reasons.Instead he settled in Avignon.The hypocrisy of some ordained men who lived luxurious lifestyles, who had mistresses and illegitimate children spawned a new age in Christianity that brought these abuses to task.This was the beginning of the Reformation