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Q: I’m retired and I volunteer with my parish to do the tech stuff to livestream some of the parish’s Masses online. Sometimes I livestream funerals for people who have family members who can’t be there in person, and I’m happy to help people out that way. Recently I heard that the parish wants to start charging a fee for having a funeral livestreamed. Isn’t that simony?
A: The short answer is that — while we could perhaps have a different discussion on the pastoral appropriateness of charging for a funeral livestream in a given local parish context — no, this is not technically simony.
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A: The short answer is that — while we could perhaps have a different discussion on the pastoral appropriateness of charging for a funeral livestream in a given local parish context — no, this is not technically simony.
A canonical crime?
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Is it simony that my parish wants to charge a fee for having a funeral livestreamed?
Is it simony to charge for funeral livestreams? Church teaching clarifies the meaning of simony and the role of spiritual goods.
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