simony|simonies in English

noun

[si·mo·ny || 'saɪmənɪ]

act of buying or selling ecclesiastical services (Catholicism)

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1. Simony!

2. They call it simony, Father.

3. Simony, usury, public lechery, and poisoning, perhaps.

4. 13 Christians must guard against the sin of simony.

5. How might elders fall victim to the snare of simony?

6. In what ways must Christians be on guard against simony?

7. Simony was common all the way to the highest ranks of the hierarchy.

8. Simony, bribery, and if you will both forgive my mention of such indelicacies fair ladies, public lechery.

9. When the pope pledges to banish all suspicion of simony from the cardinalate, he keeps his word.

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11. From this Bible account comes the word “simony,” which has been defined as “the sin of buying or selling positions or promotions in the church.”

12. This involved Pope Gregory VII (pope 1073–85) and Emperor Henry IV, who initially clashed over episcopal appointments, a dispute that turned into a battle over the ideas of investiture, clerical marriage, and simony.