The spirit of the eleventh-century papal revolution lived on. In the fourteenth century the Apostolic Penitentiary adopted a strikingly severe stance. Later in the century Urban V took a rigorist position against simoniacal recruitment to religious communities. Toughest of all were the automatic penalties pronounced a couple of centuries later by Sixtus V against simoniacal recruitment to the clergy. He devised deterrents that appeared effective against simony, among other offences, and these were retained for simony alone when their application to the other offences was lifted as too extreme. Like the war on drugs, the campaign against simony was surely never definitively won, but it was never abandoned.