While strengthening its secular power, all of the following undermined the church's diocesan authority and popular support EXCEPT ________
A. ministering to the sick during the Black Death
B. elaborating the system of clerical taxation
C. increasing papal control over church appointments
D. centralization of the church's legal proceedings
E. both elaborating the system of clerical taxation and increasing papal control over church appointments
Answer: A
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