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Simony

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SIMONY, eccl. law. The selling and buying of holy orders, or an ecclesiastical benefice. Bac. Ab. h.t.; 1 Harr. Dig. 556. By simony is also understood an unlawful agreement to receive a temporal reward for something holy or spiritual. Code, 1, 3, 31 Ayl. Parerg. 496.


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The community was still reeling from the unprecedented events of 1954 when Patriarch Yusab II had been forced to sign a document of abdication upon accusations of simony.
Church history is full of accounts of so-called "strong" popes who wielded their authority like absolute monarchs--men like Leo I, who in the fifth century established the primacy of the bishop of Rome over all other bishops, or Gregory VII, who in the 11th century seized control of the church from local lords and vigorously stamped out simony and other clergy abuses.
Subsequent articles prohibit simony, regulate the distribution of food, call for proper divisions of labor among the professed, specify acceptable wardrobes for the nuns and lay sisters, establish ways to provide for unexpected guests, offer guidance for dealing with the sick and the hungry, encourage individuals to point out faults, describe proper punishments, and regulate the assistance of outsiders with the heavy labor of the convent.
 
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