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 ...

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 ...

There are very few words in Christian theology that spark as much confusion and controversy as the word “indulgence,” and yet not one person in 100,000 who rejects it can accurately explain it. The ...

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, ...

(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 ...

To the editor: I am a Catholic Sister of the Holy Names — popularly referred to as a “nun.” As a Dodger fan since the team moved to Los Angeles, I have been to countless games and regularly watch the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The sex abuse crisis among priests and other church personnel has now exploded like napalm across the entire Catholic world. New revelations tell an old story almost every day: that of the suffering ...

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 ...