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The Church revised the norms for indulgences after the Second Vatican Council. Formerly, a partial indulgence was expressed to be an indulgence of a certain number of days or years. It was a popular misconception that these referred to the amount of time one's stay in Purgatory would ... Home . My Catholic Start Page .
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Feb 10, 2009 ... Indulgences are available at several churches in New York City, where many have ... in Roman Catholic churches misstated the given name of a ...
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www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/nyregion/10indulgence.html
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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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Indulgence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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An indulgence , in Catholic Theology, is the full or partial remission of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven. The indulgence is granted by the church after the sinner ...
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This proved by The Catechism of the Catholic Church, which states, "An indulgence is obtained through the Church who, by virtue of the power of binding and loosing granted her by Christ Jesus, intervenes in favor of individual Christians and opens for them the treasury of the merits of Christ and the saints to obtain...
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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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Plenary Indulgence for Dec. 31st of each year. ... Holy Church throughout the world acknowledges you: The Father of infinite Majesty; Your adorable, true and only Son; Also the Holy Spirit, the Comforter. O Christ, you are the King of glory! You are the everlasting Son of the Father. ... Catholic Church Goods...
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The whole concept of an indulgence is based on the medieval Catholic doctrine that sinners must not only repent of sins that they've committed, they must also confess these ... The medieval Catholic church was the source of almost all social welfare and charity and all this social welfare and charity needed to be paid for.
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wsu.edu/~dee/GLOSSARY/INDULGE.HTM
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