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"Qualifications for the office," said Lalage. "And you went over to the Archdeacon to find out whether he came up to the standard. I'm beginning to understand." "I thought at the time," said Hilda, "that it was rather cheek." "It was," I said, "but it doesn't seem to me, so far, to amount to actual simony." "It was a perfectly natural and straightforward thing to do," said Lalage.
Gregory selected Henry IV. as the antagonist with whom to fight out the battle. Henry's ecclesiastical appointments were not simoniacal in fact, although they violated the papal decrees against simony. His real offense was his determination to make the appointments himself. Moreover, in 1075, he ventured to name Germans to the sees of Ferno and Spoleto.
Of his greatest contests within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction over the celibacy of the clergy and simony as well as of those with the Imperial power represented by Henry IV the "War of Investitures" the following account will be found to present the essential features with a clearness and comprehensiveness which are seldom seen in the relation of matter so complex and in a narrative so concise.
What right had they to confess their sins to men with the brand of Rome upon their foreheads? If they were to have any priests at all, those priests, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. They must be clear of any connection with the State. They must be descended from the twelve Apostles. They must be innocent of the crime of simony.
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? Further, if a simoniacal election was unprecedented, what of Lorenzo Valla's fierce indictment of simony for which he so narrowly escaped the clutches of the Inquisition some sixty years before this date?
Yet to such a degree had his manners been corrupted by evil communications, and his understanding obscured by inordinate zeal for a single object, that he did not scruple to become a broker in simony of a peculiarly discreditable kind, and to use a bishopric as a bait to tempt a divine to perjury. Hough replied with civil contempt that he wanted nothing from the crown but common justice.
Bolton, that the price is raised so high on United States Senator now, that it affects the whole market; you can't get any public improvement through on reasonable terms. Simony is what I call it, Simony," repeated Mr. Bigler, as if he had said a good thing. Mr.
We are told that he gained his election by simony. It is very probable that he did. But the accusation has never been categorically established, and until that happens it would be well to moderate the vituperation hurled at him. Charges of that simony are common; conclusive proof there is none.
Besides his regular income, moreover, he had handsome receipts from that simony which was reduced to a system, and which gave him a liberal profit, generally in the shape of an annuity, upon every benefice which he conferred. He was, however, by no means satisfied. His appetite was as boundless as the sea; he was still a shameless mendicant of pecuniary favors and lucrative offices.
"Is Selby-Harrison here?" "No. He wrote from Dublin. He's been looking up the subject of bishops in the college library so that we'd know exactly what we ought to do." "He should have looked up simony first thing. I can't forgive Selby-Harrison for letting you in for those severe penalties." "There wasn't a bit of harm in what he said.
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