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Definitions of indulgences in various dictionaries:
noun - an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires
noun - a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone
noun - the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
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| Practice condemned in the 'Ninety-Five Theses' |
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| Oct 31 2017 New York Times |
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| Martin Luther objected to the papal policy of selling these to remit penalty for sins |
| The 95 Theses were partly inspired by anger at the attempts to get the faithful to buy these, freeing them from punishment |
| Chaucer tells of the Pardoner, a church official who sells these 11-letter things that made Martin Luther mad |
| Martin Luther was not amused by the sale of these absolutions from sin, from the Latin for "remission" |
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| Plural form of indulgence. |
| the action or fact of indulging. |
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In the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, an indulgence (Latin: indulgentia, from *dulge, "persist") is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for sins." It may reduce the "temporal punishment for sin" after death (as opposed to the eternal punishment merited by mortal sin), in the state or process of purification called Purgatory. * The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes an indulgence as "a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has already been forgiven, which the faithful Christian who is duly disposed gains under certain prescribed conditions through the action of the Church which, as the minister of redemption, dispenses and applies with authority the treasury of the satisfactions of Christ and the saints".The recipient of an indulgence must perform an action to receive it. This is most often the saying (once, or many times) of a specified prayer, but may also include the visiting of a particular place, or the perfo |