simony
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- noun
- /ˈsɪməˌni/
- Specialized
:
simoniaco
- The reform issues facing the Church as an institution during his lifetime were simony, clerical concubinage, and the sexual immorality of monks and clergy.
- the sin of simony
- fight against simony
Examples
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Men betray each other and themselves through simony, a form of treachery.
Academic text (1991) -
One of the key goals of the reformers was to root out simony and to recover a more communal understanding of the Church.
Academic text (2004) -
The precise sin of which Boniface is guilty is simony, the selling of spiritual benefits for material gain.
Academic text (2011) -
And, of course, he commits simony, turning the stones of the temple into food for his ambition.
Academic text (2003) -
Simony, the buying and selling of sacred things, was a pervasive sin.
Academic text (2004) -
He was also instructed to tackle simony and to impose a celibate life on his clergy.
Academic text (2018) -
Even the Franciscans had fallen into simony by wrangling with local bishops over lucrative services such as burials.
Academic text (2002) -
At the other extreme were the unfit, who obtained pastoral office wrongfully and through simony and who performed their pastoral duties poorly, if at all.
Academic text (2004) -
He particularly disliked its rampant nepotism and practice of simony, the buying and selling of religious favors such as pardons from sin.
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The Church has long condemned simony as a corrupt practice that undermines true faith.
Synonyms
Buying or selling church jobs for money
Antonyms
How Corrupt
Surface Forms
Etymology
Simony comes from the name Simon Magus, a man in the Bible who tried to buy spiritual power, and people used his name for the wrong act of buying church jobs. So simony means 'the buying or selling of church offices', which is why it is seen as a sin.