Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many people assume that the Catholic Church stopped granting indulgences after Luther’s famous rejection of them. Indeed, nearly ...

Indulgences, the Roman Catholic spiritual practice that irked Martin Luther and provoked the Protestant Reformation, are back. Technically, they never went away, but have been ignored by many ...

Alinari's Meeting Between Dante and Beatrice in Purgatory. Through the Catholic doctrine of indulgence, believers can minimize their time spent in purgatoryAlinari Archives / Corbis It sounds too good ...

These days, you can get a deal on anything. Even salvation! Pope Benedict has announced that his faithful can once again pay the Catholic Church to ease their way through Purgatory and into the Gates ...

GRAND RAPIDS - Kathryn Mulderink wants to make it crystal clear Roman Catholic indulgences are all about growth, both personal and communal. Mulderink, a resident of Saugatuck who attends Mass every ...

(The Conversation) — The year 2025 is a Year of Jubilee: an event held every quarter-century that calls Catholics around the world to embark on a holy journey of faith and repentance. For some, that ...

Pope Francis has fascinated the public in large part because of how willingly he upends long-standing traditions and promotes a “revolution of tenderness” to set the Catholic Church on a new, more ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. From the New York Times comes news that the Roman Catholic Church is allowing ...

Most Catholics live and die blissfully unaware that the Church even offers indulgences anymore. (A Catholic friend to whom I mentioned I was writing this article said, "They went out with Vatican II, ...

On New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, and the first day of the new year, Jan. 1, the Catholic Church offers the opportunity to obtain plenary indulgences as a sign of God’s mercy and the desire for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of men (and a few women) who dress up in fake nun's habits, some of whom wear KFC chicken buckets on their heads and ...

In 1517, the German theologian Martin Luther nailed 95 theses to Wittenberg's Castle Church door, attacking indulgences, a Catholic practice that, according to church teachings, can reduce or ...