“The Church was plagued by corruption during the Middle Ages, with simony becoming a rampant practice where ecclesiastical offices and pardons were bought and sold.”
“The Council passed reforming decrees in keeping with the Cluniac reform movement, including ones concerning simony and clerical marriage.”
“To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.”
simonist
(Christianity) One who engages in simony, the purchase of church offices.