The following decrees from the Fourth Lateran Council (1215) suggest the sort of problems that faced Church reformers during the Middle Ages:

All clerics shall carefully abstain from drunkenness. Wherefore, let them accommodate the wine to themselves, and themselves to the wine. Nor shall anyone be encouraged to drink, for drunkenness banishes reason and incites - to lust. We decree, therefore, that that abuse be absolutely abolished by which in some localities the drinkers bind themselves . . . to an equal portion of drink and he in their judgment is the hero of the day who outdrinks the others. Should anyone be culpable in this matter, unless he heeds the warning of the superior and makes suitable satisfaction, let him be suspended from his benefice or office.

We forbid hunting and fowling to all clerics; wherefore, let them not presume to keep dogs and" birds...