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The selling of pardons was simply a lower kind of simoniacal bartering which pervaded the whole hierarchical establishment.

From Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties by Seiss, Joseph A.

To be simoniacal, however, a contract need not be fulfilled or explicitly manifested; it suffices that it be unfulfilled or tacitly made, if the sinful intent can be gathered from the circumstances of the case.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome

Pius II. is singularly candid in his account of the simoniacal transaction through which he purchased the abrogation by giving the cardinal’s hat to Jean, Bishop of Arras.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume II by Lea, Henry Charles

Philip thought there was something strange, perhaps simoniacal, about the bargain.

From The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned by Macfarlane, J.

Such lamentations bore no fruit, and the simoniacal nomination of Reynolds was but the first of a series of appointments which robbed the episcopate of dignity and moral worth.

From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William