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Indulgence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Collection Title: Catholic Church Indulgence; Collection Number: M198; Dates: December 12, 1737; Volume: 1 item; ... Indulgences are "authoritative grants from the [Roman Catholic] Church's treasury...of merits and good works stored up by Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the saints of the Church, both living and...
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The Church has always taught that indulgences do not apply to sins not yet committed. The Catholic Encyclopedia notes, "[An indulgence] is not a permission to commit sin, nor a pardon of future sin; neither could be granted by any power.";
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Catholic doctrine most often equated with the sin of simony. By selling indulgence, the church reaped enormous profit with no material investment -- only a promise that the purchaser would be absolved of his sins and admitted to heaven after death.
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An indulgence can be plenary or partial. A plenary indulgence remits all the temporal punishment for sin. That means that if you were to die in a state of grace, having obtained a plenary indulgence, and not sinned since obtaining the indulgence, you would go straight to Heaven. ... Home . My Catholic Start Page .
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE; MEDIA ADVISORY; Catholic PRWire ... Named a Pilgrimage Site for Plenary Indulgence ; Vatican Decree Has Pro-Life Component ; ... According to the decree, the indulgence may be obtained at any of five times during the year: August 2, the feast of Our Lady of the Angels of the Portiuncula; October 4,
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Thus it will be seen that in both cases a plenary indulgence may be gained by those who devoutly invoke the Holy Name of Jesus at the hour of death (in mortis articulo). ... GET THE CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA ON CD-ROM...
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