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...and reminding them of the church’s clout in mitigating the wages of sin.
Why are we bringing it back?” asked Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Brooklyn, who has embraced the move. “Because there is sin in the world.”
According to church teaching, even after sinners are absolved in the confessional and say their Our Fathers or Hail Marys as penance, they still face punishment after death, in Purgatory before they can enter heaven. In exchange for certain prayers, devotions or pilgrimages in special years, a Catholic can receive an indulgence, which reduces or erases that punishment instantly, with no formal ceremony or sacrament.
...it was interesting: I had a number of people come in and say, ‘Father, I haven’t been to confession in 20 years, but this’ ” — the availability of an indulgence — “ ‘made me think maybe it wasn’t too late.’ ”
Sola scriptura. Sola Fide. Sola Gratia. Solus Christus. Soli Deo gloria.
It appeared prominently on the Web site of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which announced that any Catholic could receive an indulgence at any of six churches on any day, or at dozens more on specific days, by fulfilling the basic requirements: going to confession, receiving holy communion, saying a prayer for the pope and achieving “complete detachment from any inclination to sin.”
Notice that this is for a limited time only so act now.
How does one achieve complete detachment from any inclination to sin???
It appeared prominently on the Web site of the Diocese of Brooklyn, which announced that any Catholic could receive an indulgence at any of six churches on any day, or at dozens more on specific days, by fulfilling the basic requirements: going to confession, receiving holy communion, saying a prayer for the pope and achieving “complete detachment from any inclination to sin.”
Ev'ry time a coin in the coffer rings, another soul from Purgatory springs!
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." And again, "The Lord will judge his people." It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Vatican City is in a Panic. They are deeply in the red for the first time in a while. They Have a large porfolio, but made some REALLY bad investments, they were one of the larger non Brokerage House holders that took a beating in the Hedge-Funds. Ouch! Only reason they trot this rot back out.
The artwork perhaps. The buildings, they need work. I would rip it down and build a condo....then try to pack it with well-heeled Reformed American Christians. THIS would amuse me.Vatican City is in a Panic. They are deeply in the red for the first time in a while. They Have a large porfolio, but made some REALLY bad investments, they were one of the larger non Brokerage House holders that took a beating in the Hedge-Funds. Ouch! Only reason they trot this rot back out.
Are you suggesting that they are behind in their mortgage on St Peters Cathedral? The horror!
I wouldn't mind being the repo-man on that job.
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Vatican City is in a Panic. They are deeply in the red for the first time in a while. They Have a large porfolio, but made some REALLY bad investments, they were one of the larger non Brokerage House holders that took a beating in the Hedge-Funds. Ouch! Only reason they trot this rot back out.
It is a "Roman Logic" semantic smoke screen! Hell/Purgatory, it boils down the same thing.I think there are some misunderstandings circulating in this thread. Specifically, they are the type of misunderstandings that make informed Catholics think Protestants are ignorant schismatics.
First, the sale of indulgences has been officially illegal since 1567. Yes, I know that there are back-door ways of getting them through monetary transaction, but they are granted through many other avenues like prayers, charity, and pilgrimage.
Second, no one can get out of hell through indulgences, only purgatory. You can, I suppose, indulge your way to heaven, but not out of hell. Indulgences remit only temporal punishment for sin.