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 ...

Before Rome awoke, the jurisconsult supervised the grooming of an Indian white elephant, an “exotic” marvel meant to match ...

At the start, Luther was irate that clergy were raising money by selling indulgences that parishioners ... as follows in the 1992 Catechism of the Catholic Church. Some media accounts mistakenly say ...

Instead they will hand over money to pay for some good environmental deed elsewhere, much like the Catholic church used to sell indulgences in exchange for forgiveness of sins. The government says ...

At first island life seems great - a festival of gift bags, tropical indulgence and poolside ... of a Native residential school run by the Catholic Church in Canada triggered a wave of revelations ...

A bastion of hedonism, New Orleans is where indulgence is expected ... property from Ash Hotels is set within a former Catholic church that was erected in the 19th century. The rooms (each ...

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

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 ...