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SIMONY

sĭmˈənē, in canon law, buying or selling of any spiritual benefit or office. The name is derived from Simon Magus, who tried to buy the gifts of the Holy Spirit from St. Peter (Acts 8). Simony is a very grave sin, and ecclesiastics who commit it may be excommunicated. The temporal price may be one of many kinds, e.g., money or high office. What is sold may be the performance of a sacrament or any other spiritual service; it is also simony to sell a benefice or endowment or other temporality to which anything spiritual is attached. Because of the frequency of simony at times in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the legislation of the church is very strict; e.g., simony in the election of a pope invalidates the election (law of Julius II, 1503); no priest may ask for a baptismal fee in any way; and Mass stipends are fixed by the bishop and are governed by the expense of the Mass and the necessities of the priest. Since the Council of Trent the sale of indulgences is prohibited in any form, and no blessed article may be sold as blessed. The prevalence of simony was most important in bringing about the 11th-century papal reform movement.

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The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge - Vol. 10
Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, George William Gilmore, Clarence Augustine Beckwith, Henry King Carroll, James Francis Driscoll, James Frederic McCurdy, Henry Sylvester Nash, Albert Henry Newman, Frank Horace Vizetelly; Funk and Wagnalls, 1911
Subjects:	Theology--Encyclopedias
...with others ; and Die Konfirmation 1909 . SIMONY : A term defined by Thomas Aquinas as...from this account, have been viewed as simony, seeing that even as early as the fourth...Aquinas, ut sup. In the main, however, simony was held to be traffic in spiritual offices...

Heresy and Authority in Medieval Europe: Documents in Translation
Book by Edward Peters; University of Pennsylvania Press, 1980
Subjects:	Authority--History--Sources, Heresies, Christian--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Sources, Sects, Medieval--History--Sources
...Gods house, is contemned by the accursed simony which is contrary to his order. For the...next, I will write about this sin. For simony is a spiritual leprosy which is difficult...guard against an evil he does not know, simony must therefore be made known. Simony...

Sacred Trust: The Medieval Church as an Economic Firm
Book by Robert D. Tollison, Robert F. Hébert, Robert B. Ekelund Jr., Gary M. Anderson, Audrey B. Davidson; Oxford University Press, 1996
Subjects:	Catholic Church--Europe--History, Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500, Economics--Religious Aspects--Catholic Church, Europe--Church History--600-1500
...during the Middle Ages was the practice of simony, that is, the outright sale of Church...were basically two different kinds of simony. Payment for clerical services--as...services today--constituted professional simony. Although many writers have persisted...

Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106
Book by I. S. Robinson; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects:	Constitutional History--Holy Roman Empire, Germany--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Henry--Iv--Holy Roman Emperor--1050-1106, Holy Roman Empire--History--Henry Iv, 1056-1106, Holy Roman Empire--Kings And Rulers--Biography
simony and unchastity in 1074, but his conspiracy...with carnal vice but also with the shame of simony. 66 It was at this moment, two months...king, had tainted Henry IVs regime with simony. During the synod of Mainz Henry had admitted...

Church and Reform: Bishops, Theologians, and Canon Lawyers in the Thought of Pierre D'Ailly, 1351-1420
Book by Louis B. Pascoe; Brill, 2005
Subjects:	Ailly, Pierre D'--1350-1420?, Canonists, Catholic Church--Bishops
...established and deeply engrained practice of simony might necessitate some modification in canonical legislation regarding simony, especially legislation that nothing...dAilly was concerned with the issue of simony as related to the conferral of offices...

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Not "Too Much Noise": Joyce's "The Sisters" in Irish Catholic Perspective
Journal article by Thomas Dilworth; Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 39, 1993
Subjects:	Interpersonal relations--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Joyce, James--Works, Priests--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Religion and literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...at the start: paralysis, gnomon, and simony. Of these, the term most often discussed...Such an exchange fits the definition of simony. The priests desire to live on in the...words, or deeds can be sins.) But simony would nevertheless serve as a metaphor...

Cities of the Plain: The Rhetoric of Sodomy in Peter Damian's "Book of Gomorrah."
Journal article by Conrad Leyser; The Romanic Review, Vol. 86, 1995
Subjects:	Damian, Peter--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Gay clergy--Bibliography, Gay literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Literature, Medieval--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sex in literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sodomy--Bibliography
...offenders were guilty of the abomination of simony. As R. I. Moore has suggested, an...Bishop Hugh of Langres, who in addition to simony was accused of a host of crimes including...Silva Candida argued vociferously that simony was the greatest poison, that sacraments...

Paradigm Lost: "Grace" and the Arrangement of "Dubliners
Journal article by Thomas Jackson Rice; Studies in Short Fiction, Vol. 32, 1995
Subjects:	Dubliners (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Grace (Short story)--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Irish literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Joyce, James--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...terms "paralysis," "gnomon," and "simony", (9). Since this stage of revision...of `The Sisters makes `paralysis, `simony, and `gnomon jump out at us" (487...the Euclid," rather than to "the word simony in the Catechism" (9):(10) FIGURE...

Giacomo Antonio Marta: Antipapal Lawyer and English Spy, 1609-1618
Journal article by Paul F. Grendler; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 93, 2007
Subjects:	Church & state, Civil law, Councils, Religion
...the Church of Rome suffered greatly from simony and other crimes of the current pope...Moreover, Paul V had engaged in nepotism and simony on a grand scale. Only a general church...conclave stories, detailed accusations of simony and nepotism, personal attacks against...

Government Intervention in the Coptic Church in Egypt during the Fatimid Period
Journal article by Marlis J. Saleh; The Muslim World, Vol. 91, 2001
Subjects:	Christianity, Egypt, History, Intervention
...was that the Church fell heavily into simony. Severus states that the patriarchs had...was one which forbade the practice of simony. Either the canon was not enforced...agreement that he would not engage in simony in order to gain their support for his...

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Merchandising God: The Pope Tart: Jesus on a Tortilla? the Virgin Mary on a Cheese Sandwich? the "Nun Bun"? with eBay's Emergence, There Has Been a Fervent Resurgence of Pseudoreligious Pareidolia. One Author Posted Her Own Joke-Hoax "Pope Tart" on eBay and Watched the Results
Magazine article by Karen Stollznow; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 32, May-June 2008
Subjects:	Computer services industry--Religious aspects, Computer services industry--Social aspects, Information technology services industry--Religious aspects, Information technology services industry--Social aspects, Relics--Analysis, eBay Inc.--Religious aspects, eBay Inc.--Social aspects
...much so that they have a name for the act: simony. But this rule only extends to First and Second...the sandwich had spawned a new industry of "simony" that was becoming known as E-Simony, the trafficking of "relics" through Internet...

Gregory VII and the Politics of the Spirit
Magazine article by Robert Louis Wilken; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, January 1999
Subjects:	Catholic Church--Government, Gregory VII, Pope--Philosophy, Millennium--Religious aspects, Religion and politics--History
...mounted an active program of reform, focusing particularly on simony (the buying and selling of ecclesiastical offices) and on...catholic. His predecessors had centered their reform efforts on simony and clerical marriage, and Gregory was not indifferent to these...

Bishop Thomas Watson (1637-1717)
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 55, January 2005
Subjects:	English history--Research
...Tillotsons successor, Thomas Tenison. The charges included simony, failure to administer the oaths of allegiance and extortion...behalf. On August 3rd, 1699, Tenison found Watson guilty of simony, taking exorbitant fees and ordaining two deacons without tendering...

Dante: Reason and Religion: Though It Is Immersed in the Theological Ideas of the Middle Ages, the Cosmology of Dante's Divine Comedy Is Sophisticated, Sceptical and Tolerant
Magazine article by James Burge; History Today, Vol. 61, March 2011
Subjects:	Dante--Criticism and interpretation, Dante--Works, Poets--Criticism and interpretation, Poets--Works, Religion and science--Analysis, The Divine Comedy (Dante Alighieri) (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...be mentioned as being condemned to an eternity in Hell. ILLUSTRATION OMITTED The precise sin of which Boniface is guilty is simony, the selling of spiritual benefits for material gain. He had induced various cities to support him in one of his military...

Election of John XXIII to the Papacy
Magazine article by Richard Cavendish; History Today, Vol. 60, May 2010
Subjects:	Catholic Church--History, John XXIII, Pope--Elections, John XXIII, Pope--History, Schism--History
...resolve matters. When it assembled, however, Pope John found himself accused of crimes ranging from incest to piracy by way of simony, perjury, rape, sodomy and murder. The allegations were no doubt exaggerated and to play for time he promised to resign...

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Referendum's Yes Campaign Says No to the Cartoon Capers of True Wales; ALLEGATIONS OF 'SINISTER' GOINGS-ON ANGERS POLITICIAN
Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), January 17, 2011
...can only be sinister", Mr Gibbs states, "Simony is closely associated with politics." Simony, which was originally a Church term meaning...serious." He said he found the allegation of "simony" particularly distasteful in that it appeared...

The Pope from Hell; ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 15, 2011
...Boniface had intimidated Celestine into abdicating so he could become pope himself, though Celestines piety, his banning of simony (the selling of ecclesiastical offices) and his habit of giving away the Churchs wealth to the poor had made him unpopular...

Not Pleased with Wheaton Drama Play
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), September 30, 2011
...infidelity, murder plots, lying, taking Gods name in vain, crude sexual "humor" (which the pope would not find funny), to simony, to superstitious practices, to greed, to lust, to anger ... you name it -- in this playwrights opinion Catholic clergy...

Ban on Priests Marrying Must Go, Says Bishop
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 14, 2011
...Daly, who retired from his post in 1993, added: The change came about possibly for good reasons when there were abuses of simony and bishops bequeathing diocesan properties to their sons and so on. But there isnt celibacy in Eastern Church, and thats...

IRELAND'S NEW SAINT; He Cured the Sick;was a Friend to Prostitutes, Drunks;the Dirt Poor. His Funeral Was Bigger Than Parnell's
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 1, 2007
...opportunists who had been selling holy water which they claimed - wrongfully - he had blessed, leaving him open to accusations of simony. Charles had never endorsed such activities. He remained in England for eight years, unable to work any miracles there...

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Simony
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SIMONY sim ne, in canon law , buying or selling...Holy Spirit from St. Peter (Acts 8). Simony is a very grave sin, and ecclesiastics...any other spiritual service; it is also simony to sell a benefice or endowment or other...

Philip I , King of France
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...his efforts, royal power remained weak. Philips practice of simony and his consequent opposition to the reforms of Pope Gregory...him into conflict with the Holy See. Among the issues were simony and control of marriage policy, an issue fueled by Philips...

Peter Damian, Saint
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...sensation. In 1057 Stephen IX made him a cardinal against his will. Nicholas II sent him as legate to Milan, notorious for simony and clerical concubinage. In 1069 Alexander II sent him as legate to settle the quarrel between Roman Emperor Henry IV and...

Lateran Council, Fifth
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...reforming party had to wait until the Council of Trent. It did republish the bull of Julius (1503), which declared that simony invalidated a papal election a signal reform. Interesting enactments of the council include a decree legalizing the charitable...

Leo Ix, Saint , Pope
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was educated at Toul and was made bishop there in 1027. Leo traveled widely, vigorously combating clerical incontinence and simony; his pontificate marks the beginning of papal reform in the 11th cent. The heresy of Berengar of Tours concerning the Real...

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