Burning with conviction himself, he appealed to the general enthusiasm both in the Church and throughout the Empire for the cause of God; he ruthlessly denounced simony and proclaimed principles of papal sovereignty absolute and universal.
Simony was rampant; livings were almost put up at auction.
In a constitution of his Lateran Council, Julius had solemnly denounced the simony of the Papal elections.
He ascended the steps of St. Peter's chair without simony and amid general applause, and with him ceased, at all events, the undisguised traffic in the highest offices of the Church.
Sometime beloved I was with the spiritualty; But now covetise and simony doth them so avance That good institution is turned to other ordinance; And bonum exemplum is put to such hindrance That here I dare not appear.
Sir, ye preach very holily, but our deeds be often contrary; Ye be so acquainted with covetise and simony That maketh us to take the same way.
Simony is not now in the spiritualty: Bonus pastor ovium thereto will see; Therefore methink this is a lie: In holy church simony cannot abide.
During his pontificate a decree against simony was engraven on marble and placed before the altar of St Peter's.
But enough deeds of immorality, tyranny, ambition and simony were found proved to justify the severest judgment.
The sin of simony comprised the employment of any corrupt means to obtain appointment or election to an ecclesiastical office.
This refers to a decree of a Roman synod in 1074 against simony and the marriage of the clergy.
It was the Cluny monks who gave the Pope his chief support in the struggle to free the Church from lay investiture and simony and to enforce the ideal of a celibate clergy.
Hearing that a certain Venetian had by simony obtained the abbey of Classis, he hastened thither.
Upon complaints of simony in the church of Milan, Nicholas II.
Fraud is the clubbish knave, and Usury the hard-hearted knave, And Simony the diamon' dainty knave, And Dissimulation the spiteful knave of spade.
Usury is marked to be known; Dissimulation like a shadow fleets, And Simony is out of knowledge grown, And Fraud unfound in London, but by fits.
It is true that these instances of simony and of the use of influence belong to the last degenerate years of the monasteries in England.
After a regency of eight years he became king at the age of fifteen, and lived to defile his youth and dishonour his manhood by debauchery and adultery, simony and brigandage.
Simony and concubinage prevailed to an extent that threatened the authority of the Church over the coarsest minds.
It illustrated the simony into which the papal government had fallen, that De Gray had become, in these transactions, indebted to Rome ten thousand pounds.
The evil of simony [Footnote: By simony is meant the purchase of an office in the Church, the name of the offence coming from Simon Magus, who offered Paul money for the gift of working miracles.
He is said to have been the first Pope who practisedsimony with no attempt at concealment.
With the most powerful monarch in Europe plotting his downfall, he contrived to win the love and obedience of Zwonomir, to force the rebellious Boleslaus from his throne, and to purify England still more from simony and incontinency.
Gregory pardons him; and, in 1074, holds his first council at Rome against simony and the incontinence of the clergy.
He appeared the inflexible chastiser of simony and ecclesiastical corruption.
Yet amid these cares, such as human shoulders seldom knew before or since, he forgot not the objects to which he had dedicated his life--the punishment of simony and the preservation of ecclesiastical purity.
Charges of that simony are common; conclusive proof there is none.
If payment in the literal sense was made or promised, then unquestionably simony there was.
This charge of simony was levelled with the object of making Alexander VI appear singularly heinous.
More, you shall hunt in vain for any accusation so authoritative, formal and complete, regarding the simony practised by Alexander VI on his election.
Simony was rampant at the time, and it is the rankest hypocrisy to make this outcry against Alexander's uses of it, and to forget the others.
If that does not entail simony and sacrilege, then such things do not exist at all.
Whether he really was elected by simony or not depends largely--so far as the evidence available goes--upon what we are to consider as simony.
We find Giacomo Trotti, the French ambassador in Milan, writing to the Duke of Ferrara a fortnight after Roderigo's election that "the Papacy has been sold by simony and a thousand rascalities, which is a thing ignominious and detestable.
Lord Acton--in his essay upon this subject--has not been content to rest the imputation of simony upon such grounds as satisfied M.
His election, it is generally admitted, was simoniacal; and by simony he raised the funds necessary for his campaign to reestablish and support the papal authority.
What of the accusations of simony against Innocent VIII, which rest upon a much sounder basis than these against Alexander, and what of those against Sixtus IV?
Such simony was not wrong from the feudal point of view, and might properly represent the duty of bishop or abbot to his lord.
He never ceased to cry out against monks and clergy, denouncing their simony and avarice, their luxury, intemperance and vile unchastity, their viciousness of every kind.
Yet luxury did in fact pervade the Church of Bernard's time, and simony was as wide as western Europe.
The cardinals are stuffed with avarice and simony and evil living; without faith or religion, they sell God and His Mother, and betray us and their fathers.
One sees that simony was no extraneous stain to be washed off from the body ecclesiastic, but rather an element of its actual constitution.
And if some one maintain that he cannot commit simony or any deadly sin, then he must desire to raise him higher than St. Peter or the other Apostles.
Council of Constance--it is not surprising that the declared enemy of simony and of the corruption of the clergy found little sympathy with him.
Half of them had been condemned by Gregory for simony or other vices, many of them were aware that they were liable to similar penalties.
And we know that it was now that he was first moved to that great indignation, which never died in his mind, against simony and clerical license, which were universally tolerated, if not acknowledged as the ordinary rule of the age.
In the second Lateran Council held in the next year, at the beginning of Lent, along with the reiteration of the laws in respect to simony and the priesthood, a solemn decree against lay investiture was passed by the Church.
Celibacy of the clergy Alliance of the Papacy and Monasticism Opposition to the reforms of Hildebrand Terrible power of excommunication Simony and its evils Secularization of the clergy Separation of spiritual from temporal power Henry IV.
Sutri in 1046, he was accused of simony and deposed.
The war against simony in its original form was undoubtedly necessary, but it led to highly complicated and problematic issues.
The reason was that in many cases it had assumed an extremely subtle form, and detection was difficult when thesimony took the character of a tax or an honorarium.
France, by his simony and the violence of his proceedings against the church, provoked a threat of summary measures; and excommunication, deposition and the interdict, appeared to be imminent in 1074.
This act of my bishop was one of the many evident cases of simony of which he was guilty every day.
I began to think differently, however, when I saw the numerous articles in the principal papers of the State, signed by the most respectable names, accusing him of theft, simony and lies.
For what is the crime of simony if this be not an instance of it?
O’Regan is here publicly accused of being guilty of simony for having extorted $100 from a priest to give him permission to officiate and administer the sacraments among us.
Simony was recognized in the canon law as a heresy, punishable as heresy with perpetual seclusion, and as such was justiciable by the Inquisition.
The papal system was too strong for its grasp to be thrown off, and up to the time of the Reformation simony continued to be the all-pervading curse.
Legates and nuncios, when despatched abroad, were empowered to gather a harvest among the faithful by issuing dispensations for all manner of disabilities and irregularities, and among these simony is conspicuously noted.
Simony was universally practised and the morality of the clergy was very low.
His simony he had defended with shameless cynicism.
Geoffrey the First, seven years later, was excommunicated for simony and other vices.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "simony" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
