Do Catholics sell indulgences? Do Catholics believe that you can buy an indulgence and have your sin forgiven? Didn’t the Catholic Church do away with indulgences after the Protestant Reformation? Perhaps there’s no doctrine non-Catholics and Catholics misunderstand more than indulgences. In continuation of our series on One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, Justin Hibbard tackles the doctrine of indulgences - what they are, what they are not, and why they were in part the impetus for the Protestant Reformation.

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SHOW NOTES:

* Catechism of the Catholic Church: Indulgences

* Catechism of the Catholic Church: The Sacrament of Penance & Reconciliation

* Catholic Answers Focus: Are Indulgences a Scam

* Ways to Gain an Indulgence by Father Edward McNamara

* Council of Trent’s Decree Concerning Indulgences (1563)

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