For Luther, indulgences represented a system that misrepresented the gospel of salvation by faith alone. His bold stand was a ...

Now according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC): An indulgence is a remission before ... serious sin of simony (Acts 8:18-22) - the selling of spiritual gifts. Martin Luther reacted ...

Over the past century, Catholic leaders have wrestled with how much to embrace new forms of communication technology.

At the fourth session of the Second Vatican Council, a number of bishops and theologians suggested that it was high time to reform or even abolish the church’s ancient system of indulgences.

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory — where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...

Indulgences are pardons believed to eliminate earthly suffering or time in purgatory – where the Catholic Church teaches that people who have confessed their sins are purified before entering ...