Episode 13 – The Crushing of the Knights Templar
In view of the suspicion, infamy, loud insinuations and other things which have been brought against the order… and also the secret and clandestine reception of the brothers of this Order, and the danger to faith and souls, and the many horrible things which have been done by the many of the brothers of this Order, who have lapsed into the sin of wicked apostasy, the crime of detestable idolatry, and the execrable outrage of the Sodomites . . . it is not without bitterness and sadness of heart that we abolish the aforesaid Order of the Temple, and we subject it to perpetual prohibition, strictly forbidding anyone to presume to enter the said Order in the future, or to act as a Templar.
— Vox in excelso, Pope Clement V